Films you've seen more than 3 times theatrically - Page 2

Star Wars (as a kid at least a half dozen times. I vaguely remember once at a drive in, but from I've been told I could recite the lines to whoever was with me at the later showings.)
The Living Daylights - 3 (don't know why, just loved it at the time)
Twister - 3
Independence Day - 3
The Matrix - 3

The Cannonball Run II is the only one I can remember and I saw that more times than any reasonable person should. Growing up I lived around the block from a theatre called The Admiral Twin, a dual screen 1st run movie house. It got the first run pics that the bigger first run houses didn't want. Every tuesday was what we called "Tightwad Tuesday," all seats 99 cents. The Cannonball Run II played there for months it seemed and my shitty friends and I went every Tuesday just for shits and giggles. Tuesday was skinflint day in West Seattle. Not only was there a cheap movie but a taco joint called Amigo Taco had 2 tacos and 2 Cokes for 2 dollars. Dinner and a flick for 3 bucks not bad. The Admiral Twin is still there, too. Now it is a second run movie theatre. I haven't been there in years. Maybe a trip back is in order?

I'm lucky enough to have a pretty decent mom and pop theatre in the town where I go to school that only charges $4 for evening shows, $3 for matinees. It's clean, has 11 screens, a decent sound system and the owner's an experienced projectionist. It's a pretty good deal for a college student with a part-time job.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 - 5
Kill Bill Vol. 2 - 5
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 5
Knock Off - 5
Star Wars - 6
The Empire Strikes Back - 8
Fight Club - 10

With the majority of these films, 1) I didn't pay for most of the screenings, and 2) it was all about taking people who hadn't seen them. Except Knock Off, I watched that with the same person four times, once a week, until it left town. After seeing it the first time, I went back the next day.

Shaun of the Dead- 5 times.

Twice paid for, three at the theater I worked at.

Saw Beetlejuice and The Abyss four times during their theatrical run, Jurassic Park about six times.
I never dated until I was much older so I had a lot of time on my hands.
As for the expense issue: I'd spend my superfluous cash on movies than just about anything else that isn't booze or recreational drugs so it's not really an issue.

Roger Rabbit - 3 times
Dick Tracy - 3 times
Empire SE - 3 times
LOTR Trilogy - 3 times
Life Aquatic - 3 times
Lion King - 3 times
Goblet Of Fire - 3 times
Miami Vice - 3 times
New World - 3 times
Toy Story 2 - 3 times

Casino Royale - 4 times
Collateral - 4 times
Prisoner of Azkaban - 4 times
POTC 1&2 - 4 times
GoldenEye - 4 times

Incredibles - 5 times
Nightmare Before Xmas - 5 times (3 first time, 2 in 3D)

Never seen a film more than 3 times in the cinema. Terminator 2, The last Boy Scout and Fellowship of the Ring 3 times each, but nothing more than that, and I've only seen a handful or so 2 times in the theatre (Lethal Weapon, Attack of the Clones and The two Towers are the ones I can think of right now). Video/DVD is another matter entirely, but that's not what the thread was about.

Turner & Hooch.

For realz.
4 times that summer.


I also saw The Phantom Menace theatrically more than any of you, guaranteed.
Not something to be proud of, I realize.

I saw all of the LOTR films multiple times, ROTK was 4 times I think, the others quite a bit more. But I'm a Kiwi, call it patriotism.

Nobody has come out and said The Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, Betty Blue, Das Experiment, Perfume, Seven, The Host, Pan's Labyrinth, etc, etc, more than once.

Why do people feel the need to see blockbusters more than once?

Particularly since generally these are the least intellectually demanding films. I guess that's what makes a blockbuster a blockbuster.

Hey, I saw Memento 3 times and Tenenbaums and Se7en twice (among others). But yeah, blockbusters are meant to be seen on the big screen and they lose something when viewed at home on a vastly smaller screen. As I stated before though, I personally find it insane to pay to the same movies multiple times.

I posted a few days ago that I'd seen Lebowski several times in the theater, don't I count?

I think the blockbusters are easier to see several times in theaters due to going with friends and/or dates. Let's face it, it's easier to let our friends convince us to go see Spiderman a second or third time than it is for me to convince them to go see American Splendor. Sure, in a perfect world we'd all have masses of friends who are literate in great cinema.. but most people just aren't. They want to see the latest fx with all the explosions and cgi on display.

It has to do with what was said earlier - many people see films as a social experience, they go with different groups to films, and the more exposure a film has, the more likely people will want to see it. Sad but true.

I'd quite happily go to see Pan's Labyrinth multiple times, but the sad fact is I have no friends, or at least no friends (well, maybe one) who can see it with me due to their schedules and film preferences.

If it makes you feel better, I only saw Titanic once, and have no desire of ever repeating the experience. Well, maybe the naked Kate Winslet bit.

All those films save the last two I have on DVD and have seen multiple times. For a film I really love, something with meat and thought in it, I like to space out the viewings to give me some time to chew on them and think about them before I watch them again.
Jurassic Park was just a cool thing to watch, so I caught it a bunch of times in the cinema because I knew I would never own the thing to watch regularly, which I don't.

Pulp Fiction-4
The Matrix-4

Titanic. Three times, three dates, and I god, damn, enjoyed myself.

An ex-girlfriend of mine did see Titanic for 42 times.
Really. I saw the tickets. You should have seen the smile on her face when I bought her the Titanic DVD for her birthday.

She also watched each LOTR for about 20 times. Curiously, she didn't see anything else in between. Crazy.

Because she didn't already own a Titanic-themed bangle for her rearview mirror? Because I'm guessing that's what she must've thought it was, obviously having no idea what a DVD was at the time.

I've never broken three times, at least not that I can recall. Shockingly, most of my three-times-over films are pretty terrible choices for repeat cinematic viewings, with a few obvious exceptions:

CHICAGO - two separate friends wanted to see it, then my sister paid for me to see it again just so she could be sure that it didn't deserve a Best Picture Oscar
AUSTIN POWERS:THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME - a long, boring summer
ANCHORMAN - Three of us just couldn't stop going back for more, over the space of a week or so
SHAUN OF THE DEAD - Self-explanatory
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS - Watched twice on initial release, then once more during a marathon post-RETURN OF THE KING

I also saw the last two prequels twice, as well as both SPIDER-MAN movies, both PIRATES movies and, more recently, SMOKIN' ACES and HOT FUZZ.

There is a cinema in London that shows nothing but Gone With The Wind.
Does good business, too.

I've never had the inclination to go and see a film more than once at the cinema, I like to let stuff permeate a little and mull on a movie before I watch it again so watching it in a confined three week (the average time a movie hangs around at the Multiplex over here) just seems odd.

The only film I ever watched more than once at the cinema was LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring, largely because my friend wanted to watch it and neglected to tell me until after I'd seen it. Watching it in such a compact time frame is probably why I never really took to the film like most geeks did.

For some of us, some of those films didn't play long enough in our area to see them more than once.

Return of the Jedi 3 times. 4 if you count the SE.

Ice Pirates- Twice

Twice, with 2 different dates:

Titanic
Twister
Spawn
X-Men

Wow.

The problem is that most movies don't play as long as they used to. Jeez, Titanic was number one at the box office for at least 8 weeks, pulling at least $20 mil a week. It then played in theaters for months, and by the time it hit the dollar show, I saw it for the 4th time.

And with all the Star Wars love on this site, and no one saw it more that 5 times in the theater? I guess I'm an oldie. I saw Star Wars at least 50 times in the theater, and Empire and Jedi countless times. I even sat thru Jedi back-to-back! Paid $1 to see it, me and my bro walked out when it was done, paid $1 and saw it again. Granted, it really started to be a pain in my ass, and boring as hell during the middle part, but I was 16 years old, and video wasn't out yet.

Anyway, the movies I've seen more than three times in the theaters are too many to mention. </brag>

11 years old, summer of 1985, saw Back to the Future twice a week for 6 weeks in the school holidays, 2pm Matinée at the Astra in Maghull...

...actually cheered out loud the first time I saw George knock out Biff - that type of behaviour isn't normal in a UK cinema...

I think I saw The Station Agent three times (What can I say, it's a happy movie).

I might have gone to see Brokeback Mountain, Goodnight and Good Luck and A History of Violence three times over several months.

I'm going to see Hot Fuzz again when it comes out so that'll be three on that.

That may be it.

Two Towers is at 3, I don't think anything else, though Grindhouse will be joining that club shortly.

Seen Fellowship, TTT, ROTK 6 times a piece.

Star Wars Ep I: 3 times (with one time digitally projected)

Titanic: 2 times

Fight Club: close to 6 times, I think. it's been a while.

Matrix: Probably 7 times.

The Road Warrior only showed for one week in my town. I went every night and brought new people with me each time. By the last night, there were 12 of us. The theater dude said he would have held it over, but he was committed to the blockbuster that was opening the next week.

I went to see Breaker Morant five times in a week. Better than going to acting class.

To this day, I think the only movies I've seen three times in the theatre is The Departed and Toy Story.

I've never seen a movie three times in a theatre. I went to see Matrix, Kill Bill and Deep Blue Sea twice.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is all that comes to mind.

Almost Famous - 3 times
The Phantom Menace - 2 times
Attack of the Clones - 2 times

I saw Casino Royale four times. Before that, I think Batman Begins was twice.

Hellboy - 3 or 4 times (twice in one day... don't ask why)
Superman Returns - 4 times
X-Men 2 - 2 or 3 times

I used to, but not so much now.

Gladiator - 5 times (I was working in a shithole in England called Bracknell - didn't know a soul..)
Matrix - 4 times
Master & Commander - 3 times
Pulp Fiction - 3 times (I was working and travelling in Australia, and managed to see it all across the continent)

"Except Knock Off, I watched that with the same person four times, once a week, until it left town. After seeing it the first time, I went back the next day."

WTF ?! - Knock off is one of VD's worst. It's not funny and VD hardly does any martial arts - most of the time he's doubled.
Double Team - now that i can just about understand, but knock off?!!

Oh! I loved that one. I think I saw it 3 times in the theatre, too. At least twice. The first time was a free screening, and there was so much laughter, I missed a lot of the lines.

Haven't seen too many movie 3 times theatrically. Terminator 2 and Gremlins 2: The New Batch and maybe Dark City. I think that's about it.

I think the most recent films I saw multiple times were Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction. The summers of '86-'88 must have had a dozen movies I saw a bunch of times each. I went to the movies 5 days a week ( ages 12-14) all summer. It capped out at The Lost Boys, which I saw at least 10-12 times. Even films like Cocktail got 3-4 viewings.

Odd how the next summer and all through high school I worked at a movie theatre and in those years didn't see any film 3 or more times, except for maybe Flatliners.

Only saw two movies more than twic ein theaters: LotR: The Two Towers (still my favorite of the three) and The Departed, because I dragged different groups of people to it.

I've only seen three movies twice in theatres. The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Minority Report and Batman Begins.

Dawn of the Dead (2004), House of 1000 Corpses, four times each, The Devil's Rejects three or four times (I can't remember).
Kill Bill Volume 2, Grindhouse, three times each.
Each Star Wars prequel twice (but the second viewing of Episode I was the cheap rerelease they did in Fall '99). Also twice, American Beauty, Almost Famous, Saw (wouldn't sit through it again though), The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Fight Club, Hellboy.

The Fellowship of the Ring - 6
Return of the King - 5
The Phantom Menace - 4
Revenge of the Sith - 4
Serenity - 4
Dead Man's Chest - 4
Superman Returns - 4
The Two Towers - 3
From Dusk Till Dawn - 3
Scream - 3

I'll probably get banned over the last two, but oh, well:

E.T. - too many times to count. But I worked at a movie theater at the time, and after we'd finish our shift, we'd go in just for kicks. I will say that I've only seen it twice all the way through. At work, we'd lose the first 45 minutes of the movie because that's when we got off work.

Star Wars - the original. Three times in the theater when I was 14.

The Fugitive - Six times. Okay, I admit, this was the one where I just came unhinged. When I was 13, I fell like a ton of bricks for both Harrison Ford when I saw him in Star Wars, and for Tommy Lee Jones, both around the same time. And while Harrison Ford has kind of bored me for the past ten years or so, Tommy Lee Jones still does it for me. Really, all you had to say to me back in '93 was "Hey - did you know that the two actors you love the most in the world are together for the first time in a remake of 'The Fugitive'? Harrison Ford plays Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones plays Gerard." I was as bad as the shrieking Leo DiCaprio fangirls at "Titanic" back in '97 when I heard about "The Fugitive."

Legends of the Fall - Three times. More excuses: I was going through a really horrible breakup, it was right around Christmas, which makes horrible breakups even worse, and it had Brad Pitt at his utterly completely most gorgeous. Plus the music, the scenery, the costumes, the sad love story. I was really depressed, so it was either this or holing up in my apartment with pan after pan of Duncan Hines brownies.

Just STAR WARS, and the fourth time came with the SE rerelease.

I can't think of a film that I've seen three times in the theater, but I've seen a decent amount of films twice.

I used to have a friend who worked at theater, so many of the movies I've seen 3+ were on his account...still, ashamedly, I've paid to see many movies multiple times. In addition, Portland--unlike many other cities, but not all--has several theaters that screen old movies pretty regularly..:

Kill Bill Vol. 1 - 6
Kill Bill Vol. 2 - 5
Old Boy - 4
The Departed - 4
Solaris (dir. Soderberg) - 4
The Royal Tennebaums - 3
The Magnificent Ambersons - 3
Rushmore - 3
Star Wars (eps. 1, 2) - 3
Nightmare on Elm Street (rereleases) - 3

Oh, yessir, and Serenity thrice...how could I forget Joss>?