3 is my record/limit. For both Independence Day and Fellowship of the Ring.
On a side note, Mortal Kombat was the first movie I saw twice in the theaters.
I’ve seen each of the original Star Wars trilogy in the theater at least three times - once each when they were released, once each when the Special Editions came out, and all three back-to-back at a special 20th anniversary showing of the entire trilogy.
I know I saw the Star Wars Special Edition at least twice, so that’s up to four there, and while I don’t have any direct recollection of going to the theater, it’s almost unthinkable that I wouldn’t have made my mom take me to see the re-release before Empire came out. So, probably five for Star Wars.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there were one or two other theater viewings in there that I’ve completely forgotten about.
I spent $24 to see Dances with Wolves … eight times. Much like **steveroo **and Star Wars, I was a college student, and $3 wasn’t much to spend on three hours of entertainment that, at the time, I really enjoyed.
I like the movie less now.
Five times. Back in 1983 I won a ticket to all the theaters in town, for a year. If I liked a film I could see it again and again and again. So I did.
Probably saw “Pink Floyd - The Wall” about a dozen times when I was in high school in the 80s. It was the go to midnight movie for my social group. I’ve also seen “The Godfather” a handful of times in theaters over the years.
James Cameron’s Aliens back in '86. Counting watching both of one of a drive-in’s double showings, I saw it nine times in the theater.
“This Is Spinal Tap” - probably a couple dozen, when it was in theaters 30 years ago (yes, it’s been that long). My brother worked at the theater, and got me in free. 
By the time it left that theater, senior citizens were going to see it, and saying, “We’ve got to find out if this movie really is as funny as everyone says it is!”
And as for the “choking on vomit” scene, the first time I saw it, the audience nearly blew the roof off the building going “EWWWWWWW!!!” All the newspaper reviewer would say that that the drummer had died “in a manner too revolting to relate”, so we had no idea what to expect. I never heard a movie audience howl that loud until I saw “About Schmidt” on opening weekend, and got to see KATHY BATES in all her full-frontal glory! :eek: (In an NPR interview, she was asked if she knew she was doing a nude scene, and she replied, “It was in the script!”)
BTW, Scotland Yard still doesn’t have any way to find out whose vomit it was. You can’t get DNA from stomach contents (i.e. “dust for vomit”). 
And what was the movie?
I’m lucky enough to remember when movies were shown in theaters again and again, so long as they continued to attract audiences. And I went to the movies a lot, especially with my dad and older brother in the summertime.
Back in the '60s, I saw all of the following anywhere from five to at least ten times:
***Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Journey to the Seventh Planet
Guns of Navarone
101 Dalmatians
The Parent Trap
Nikky, Wild Dog of the North
The Great Escape
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Mary Poppins
The Great Race.***
Since then, I know I saw Star Wars at least ten times and Titanic four times in theaters.
When I lived in Czechoslovakia, they would show English-language movies all weekend at the local cinema. I’m pretty sure I saw Die Hard, Backfire, Backdraft, Silence of the Lambs, See No Evil, and Naked Gun 2 1/2 three times each. I also saw the Soviet version of War and Peace four times at midnight showings when I was living in England.
I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey five times (all five times in 70mm!!). I’ve seen Gone With the Wind four times. There are dozens that I’ve seen two or three times.
In the theater, it’s probably Jurassic Park. It played at the dollar theater for a long time and I saw it a few times in the regular movie house before that. I think I saw it over a dozen times in the theater. Tombstone is a close second.
Oh maybe Rocky Horror, though most of those were at a convention. I saw Serenity five times in the theater. I saw Man of Steel three times on the big screen. Avatar at least three.
And again, like with that other “Movies Watched the Most Times” thread, I assume we’re not talking porn.
No, that’s the “Movies I never finished” thread. 
Cinderella, three nights in a row. Cost a total of 42 cents back then. Pure magic at the time, for an 8 year old kid.
Today, not many folks would bother to see movies more than once in a theater, would they? Mama pointed out yesterday that some places charge more than $12 for a ticket now. Lordy! I’ll just be patient and pay $4.99 and let 20 family members watch it.
Fantasia - about 14 times. I really like that movie, and found it when I was in college.
Rocky Horror Picture Show - maybe 25 times. Used to go every weekend.
Besides musicals, I have never understood why people want to see the same movie multiple times (and paying), when presumably there are other movies that they have not seen that might interest them.
I may have seen one or two twice back in the days when they didn’t clear out the theater after each showing, but the only one I have seen in theaters where I paid multiple times to see it is The Simpsons Movie.
That’s more true nowadays than it used to be. Star Wars came out before the days of video rental. I’m not sure I would have watched it in the theater 19 times if I’d had access to more than just what was on in the other theaters even if it did blow me away at the time.
Pulp Fiction - 5 times. I found myself strangely compelled by it more and more each time, so I kept taking different friends to it.
Independence Day - 5 times. Yeah, yeah, I know. But the 10-year-old in me freaking loved it. (Of course, I was 29 at the time.)
Toy Story - maybe 5 times, not sure (many more at home). I still consider it (nearly) a perfect movie.