What's the most amount of time you've seen a single movie in the theater?

[Jules Winfield]

I saw Jurassic Park 4 times when it came out. I don't know why. I was just amazed I suppose. What movie have you seen multiple times in a theater the most and why, geek?

[PixyJunket]

I saw Jay & Silent Bob strike back like 8 times.. even though the first time I clearly thought, "This is his worst movie.. but fun.", Why? Well a lot of the times were me taking other people or going with other people, it was a fu nmovie to watch in groups.

I saw Kill Bill v1 three times in three days. :) Why? Cause it kicked ASS.

[devilshalo]

Aliens. At least 30 times.

Game over, man.

As for why, it was one of the few times that it was a fun movie each time I saw it, not to mention that friend's worked at the theater so seeing it for free was a big plus.

I mean that year, that was more fun than Top Gun and I remembered more lines than Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[reubs82]

I saw FOTR about five times and Fight Club six or seven times. I don't normally go to see a movie more than once, but Fight Club was just one of those things that I kept finding opportunities to go, and FOTR was an amazing film that is really best seen on a large scale.

[Crocker Jarmen]

I think I saw Pulp Fiction 10 or 11 times at the theater between 94-95 when it first came out, which seems like alot as I very rarely catch a movie even twice at the show.

[Bean-si]

Sad really but I saw Aliens 18 times when it came out. But I was younger and had a lot more free time

[Samuel]

I saw Pulp Fiction 5 times. I usually never see a movie more than once in the theaters. Pulp Fiction was unlike any movie I ever experienced. I was never really into to movies very seriously until I saw Pulp Fiction. It changed my perception of movies.

[oclavlib316]

I must have seen the Lion King 11x in the theater. Although I think I only paid for it 3x. I did a lot of theater hopping in those days. It is still my favorite of the recent non-Pixar Disney films. There still is something amazing about watching that stampede.

Saw Star Wars: Episode One 10x in 10 different theaters. Part of that was friendly competition with a co-worker. I think he ended up seeing it 17x or so. I had to cry uncle after a while. It got painful. I dunno, maybe I thought it would be a better film if I saw it at different places. Never happened.

Beyond that would be A New Hope/Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi (9 times), Pulp Fiction (5 times), and Terminator 2 (4 times).

Nice thread!

[wendersfan]

I've seen Fellini Satyricon and Paris, Texas each close to ten times in a theater. The reason is simple - I like both movies quite a bit, and both were playing during a time when I'd just moved to a new city and didn't know many people...

[Groucho]

I saw Beauty and the Beast (1991) over 10 times in theaters. Including once in German. I've never seen it on VHS, DVD, or any other medium except on film (and I own the DVD!)

[PalmerJoss]

The most times I've ever seen a movie in the theatres is 3, which was for the Star Wars SE back in January of '97. I will tie that in December when I see FOTR on Trilogy Tuesday. I try to avoid going to the movies as often as I can because I just don't have good experiences when I go, and it usually dampens my memory of the film.

[FalconH10]

Out of all the great movies in the world mine would be... The Bourne Identity.

I saw it 5 times in theaters. It was a good movie but not 5 times good, it was just what I went 5 times with 5 different groups of friends to the movies and they all chose the same damn movie, even months after I had seen it.

The only other movie I can think of that I saw multiple times was the Matrix which I saw three times. I just don't go to the movies multiple times for the same movie :)

[devilshalo]

So far I'm winning! w00t!

[Josh H]

Star Wars Episode 1- 5 times
LOTR: TTT- 4 Times
SW Ep 2- 3 times
Lotr: FOTR - 2 times

That's all I've seen more than once.

[Spooky]

I saw "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" 10 times in the theater when it came out (twice on opening day). My theory was that this was the last time I would see the original crew on the big screen, and I wanted to cherish that chance.

I thought I would never beat that record (the previous was 6 times for Terminator 2), but I did just a few years later when I saw Harrison Ford's "The Fugitive" 11 times.

Since then, I've gotten a life and rarely go to the movies more than once...I've only seen one film more than once this year, and that was "Terminator 3" (2 times).

[El-Kabong]

Originally posted by devilshalo
So far I'm winning! w00t!

Sorry to destroy your hopes man, but consider yourself firmly second place:

Rocky Horror: about 60 times
Star Wars: Well over 300 times (not counting the special edition)
Empire and Jedi: about 200 times a piece
Jaws: at least 20 times
Ghostbusters: 25 times minimum
Raiders of the Lost Ark: 250 times before I stopped counting.

Now, of course keep in mind that this was WELL before the widespread use of the VCR, when movies were released several times and ran in the theaters for months and months and months. Now and days, I dont see movies over and over again. I think the most I saw Phantom Menace in the theater was 10 or so times.

[majorjoe23]

Yeah, I'm surprised no one had mentioned Rocky until you, El-Kabong. I'm not sure how many times I've seen it in the theater, but way more than 10 times. 50 might be a closer bet, though I haven't been in five years or so.

[PixyJunket]

:eek:

[devilshalo]

Originally posted by El-Kabong
Sorry to destroy your hopes man, but consider yourself firmly second place

Yeah I'm not winning so my title of geek can go to El-Kabong! w00t! :p

[immortal_zeus]

I saw Forrest Gump twice. First time with a group of friends, second time on a date.

I saw Jurassic Park: The Lost World twice. First time with my girlfriend and some other friends, second time with another girl.

I saw Star Wars: The Phantom Menace twice. First time with friends, second time with my girlfriend.

I think those are the only movies I've seen in the theater more than once. Obviously, it's not a common occurrence for me. Note that I went to those movies because the person I went with the second time wanted to watch the movie.

I think I may watch Kill Bill again in the theater. That movie was awesome.

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[shizawn]

Back around 1980 or so my mother had to take a second job at a movie theater. My sister and I would go to work with her. I remember watching Smokey and the Bandit II and Airplane! neary every day for as long as they were in the theater. That doesn't really count as I wasn't paying to see them.

I can't think of a single movie I've paid to see more than twice.

[RichC2]

X2: X-men United - Saw it 3 times in theaters with different people.

Kill Bill: Vol I - Seen it twice on my own.

Star Wars Episode 2: AOTC - Terrible movie, but saw it twice w/ different groups.

The Ring - twice, with different groups.

[KenobiKid22]

geez this is gonna sound bad;

Star Wars Ep1-14 one of those was for charity
Star Wars Ep2-12
There's something about Mary-6
Road Trip-6

[Numanoid]

Originally posted by Spooky
I saw "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" 10 times in the theater when it came out (twice on opening day). My theory was that this was the last time I would see the original crew on the big screen, and I wanted to cherish that chance.
That's my personal record as well...7 times theatrically.

[mookyman]

I saw Moulin Rouge 5 times, each time to convince another person that it was better than they were expecting.

[RyoHazuki]

I saw Glitter 610,482 times. Every penny that movie made in its US theatrical run came from me.

[eedoon]

Titanic, only twice. And that because my friend asked me to accompany him the second time around (the first time, I watch it the day it comes out by myself)

[Caliking]

FOTR about 7 times i believe.

[solipsta]

Fight Club - an even 10 times...

plus many more that I've seen more than twice

[cruzness]

Lion King - 3 times

[SmackDaddy]

Star Wars-ANH when it was originally released I was what...7..and I watched it a total of 22 times during it's original run. Me and my cousin would get dropped of at the movies while our mom's went shopping (back when theaters were mall enough to fit in strip centers and child abductions were something you never heard of). I think the most we watched it in one day was 3 times.

As a matter of fact the only movies I've watched multiple times in a theater are the SW films.

ANH-22
Empire-9
ROTJ-7
TPM-10
AOTC-8

[PixyJunket]

An older friend of mine told me he saw Empire Strikes Back 50 times I couldn't believe him.. after reading this thread I think it may actually be true.

[grunter]

Originally posted by SmackDaddy
Star Wars-ANH when it was originally released I was what...7..and I watched it a total of 22 times during it's original run. Me and my cousin would get dropped of at the movies while our mom's went shopping (back when theaters were mall enough to fit in strip centers and child abductions were something you never heard of). I think the most we watched it in one day was 3 times.


This is almost exactly my story. I used to get dropped off at the theater to see "Star Wars" over and over and over again. I can't even tell you the number of times I actually saw it projected on the big screen. (And gee, maybe that's why so many of us have such a deep, deep emotional attachment to the ORIGINAL PRINT!! Ya think?)

When I was old enough to actually keep track of such things, I think the film I saw the most times in a theater was the first Tim Burton "Batman." I was at about 22 times by the end of that particular summer.

[IIG]

I saw Gladiator 8 times, SW Ep. 2 6 times, and Pearl Harbor maybe 3 times...

[Charlie Goose]

Superman II
Backdraft
The Addams Family
The Others

All twice.

http://charliegoose.homestead.com/files/goose.jpg Honk!

[Rypro 525]

ttt 3 times, (opening weekend, about 2 months later, and this dec. 16th.

[Sunday Morning]

Ok, I saw Adventures in babysitting 4 times in the theater back in 1987.

It was my babysitter you can say. Oh and I had a thing for shue.

[NitroJMS]

I saw Jurassic Park four times during its release in 1993. I never thought I'd top that but I did eventually tied it last year with Star Wars: Episode II.

Off the top of my head I've also seen The Matrix Reloaded, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Home Alone, Beauty and the Beast, Independence Day, Star Wars: Episode I, American Wedding, Jurassic Park III, The World Is Not Enough and Kill Bill twice in the theater.

[TCG]

TMR 3 times.

a bunch of others twice.

[f1shf00d]

I remember going to Tommy (loved The Who) for the first show and stayed til around 8 p.m., so I saw it about 4 times in a row.

[El-Kabong]

Originally posted by Sunday Morning
anyone who sees anything in the theater more than a few times...


Or -
14) Saw them all before the widespread use of VHS and digital medium. Back in the dasy where if you wanted to see a movie again, you had to wait until the studios re-released it.

[SunMonkey]

I saw Aladdin 7 times when in high school. However, it was only because our theater in town kept it for 2 months (really unusual for a single screen), so my girl friend at the time and I just kept on going. It became a joke to us. It didn't hurt that a ticket was only $2 back then.

[movielib]

Nashville - three times. I might have seen The Graduate three times also but I'm not sure. I've seen many, many movies twice.

[flair]

Originally posted by Jules Winfield
I saw Jurassic Park 4 times when it came out. I don't know why. I was just amazed I suppose. What movie have you seen multiple times in a theater the most and why, geek?

That is odd, I saw the same movie four times also. I went to see it three times within a month, and then they brought it back to our theater a couple of months later, and I went again. I do not think I've gone to any other movies more than twice.

[Michael Corvin]

Lion King back in high school. 7 times. Each time with a different chick. :up: Top that you geeks!

;)

edited to add, once more at the Imax last year with my fiance, now wife.

For a grand total of 8.

[matome]

The Fifth Element, 10+ times

[Dead By Dawn]

PULP FICTION !!! 4 times

First time with my wife at the theater.
Second time with a friend at the theater.
And 2 more times at the Summer Drive-In in Memphis TN with my wife again, and a friend Jose Cuervo Gold.

After Reservoir Dogs I knew I had to see Pulp Fiction, I just had no idea how much I would love it.

"You dig it the most"

[DealMan]

Let's see...

2-Times:

Jumanji
Braveheart
Spider-Man
Star Wars: Episode II
JasonX
Kill Bill (and counting)

4-times: Matrix Reloaded (2 of these were in the $1.50 theater)

5-times: LOTR: TTT

[evenflow]

Originally posted by El-Kabong

Star Wars: Well over 300 times (not counting the special edition)
Empire and Jedi: about 200 times a piece


-screwy-

[mookyman]

Originally posted by movielib
Nashville - three times.

Just wanted to say I'm envious of this one. Wish I had been able to see it at all on a big screen.

Which reminds me:

15) Understands and appreciates the quality of a theatrical experience.

[ArchibaldTuttle]

FOTR twice, and The Witches twice, can't think of anything else, I am poor and don't have the time to see movies in the theater even for the first time in most cases

[kenny79]

Matrix -- 5 (twice with same person, other three with different people)
Fight Club -- 4 or 5 (Friday and Saturday opening weekend; twice or thrice at indie theater's midnight screenings)
AOTC -- 3 (press screening, 12:01 opening day, IMAX)

[Joel]

The most amount of time I've seen a movie in theatre is twice. Or should there be any thrice, I don't remember.

Here is my list. (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=3742037#post3742037)

And also I've seen lots of Hong Kong movies by multiple viewing. Didn't count.

[chanster]

I saw Terminator 2 - 3 times. Thats really about it.

[shill66]

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, five times. Other than that, I've never seen anything in a theater more than twice (Twelve Monkeys, Alien3, many others), as far as I can recall.

[zooiiks]

Back in the winter of '92, I was flunking my freshman astronomy course at UMich. I was told that the only way I would be able to pass the class would be to ace the final, so I read the entire book (15 chapters), 5 times each and committed them to memory.

To keep myself sane, after completing each reading, I went to the mall and watched A Few Good Men. Why A Few Good Men? No idea...but I committed that to memory as well.

I aced the final and passed the class.

While I no longer remember a thing about astronomy, I can still recite the entire Nicholson "You can't handle the truth" monologue word for word.

Very, very sad.

[shoppingbear]

Originally posted by RyoHazuki7
I saw Glitter 610,482 times. Every penny that movie made in its US theatrical run came from me.

:D Wow, you're my hero ;) :p

[Imodium]

Kill Bill: Volume 1 four times. Different people kept wanting to see it, so I went with them, plus, I loved it.

[tommyp007]

an odd one....."the Dead Pool" 5 times on its theatrical run. still love the film!

[movielib]

Originally posted by mookyman
Just wanted to say I'm envious of this one. Wish I had been able to see it [Nashville] at all on a big screen.
...

There are advantages to being old. :)

I saw it the Friday it came out, then two days later on Sunday and then about two weeks later. Of course, that was before home video and I knew it would be a long time until I could see it again. Then, even though I subsequently watched it quite a few times on TV, videocassette and laserdisc, I couldn't watch it again in its 2.35:1 glory until the DVD came out.

[mongoose78]

black hawk down - 5 times

and i thought i was going crazy :)

[Giles]

I saw "Star Wars" at least 7 times Another time when it played with Empire and Jedi, back to back.

Titanic: three times.

[raven56706]

I saw Titanic 4 times. Not by choice but because my girlfriend wanted to see it for LEO. In the fourth time, i ended up leaving her in the theater watching the movie and broke up with her for this reason.

LOL.... i have been better ever since.

[Brian Shannon]

Original Star Wars (episode IV, A New Hope), 15 times.

[Spooky]

Originally posted by tommyp007
an odd one....."the Dead Pool" 5 times on its theatrical run. still love the film!

If you're going to play the game, you better know the rules, love.

Agreed...a great, underrated Clint Eastwood movie.

[angryyoungman]

I can't really remember if I saw many films twice... I really don't like to do that in general, even with movies I like, just because I like to see as wide a range of films as possible. However, I did venture to see The Fifth Element three times. My friend thought it would be fitting to go five times (and did complete the last two by himself), but I just couldn't afford it at the time. :)

[cactusoly]

in the 70's and early 80's it was a lot more common to see a movie multiple times in the theatre. Back then that was the only way to see a film in many cases a movie would be out for several months and even released a year later. With the development of cable TV and VCRs it wasn't as necessary to see a movie muliple times in the theatre. Now with DVDs coming out only a few months after the initial release it doesn't make as much sense to see a movie multiple times in the theatre unless its a movie you really love.