Personally, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I knew it was going to be quite the experience before I went for the first time‡ but it was so much fun I had to keep going back bringing friends each time.
It’s still a fun tradition to do though we haven’t done it since last year, we’re probably going to try and go again in a few weeks.
‡ I had seen it many times before going to see it in theaters for the first time.
Jurassic Park, the original Star Wars trilogy when it was released in theaters again before the prequels, Inception, and the newest Mad Max. There were a few others, but those are the ones I remember.
I skipped school (and got away with it) to watch lotr:2towers 3 times in one day at the theater
Previously, I had never ever seen a movie in theaters twice. If I had seen a movie once and wanted to watch it again, I could wait to buy it for myself. It just didn’t ever make much sense to me as to why anyone would watch the same movie multiple times in like a one-month time span.
And then Everything Everywhere All At Once came out, and I saw it again the week after I saw it the first time, and then I understood. What a fantastic movie.
Raccacoonie
Baraka – I’ve seen it at least a dozen times, most of them in movie theaters.
Oh man, lucky you!
I want a double feature with Samsara 😱
Too bad there doesn’t seem to be a third (or fourth if we count Chronos) one coming…
Not the same director, but a similar spirit - you don’t count Koyaanisqatsi?
I was only counting the movies directed by Fricke, have yet to watch the qatsi movies
I spent a long time living in places that had saved their one last ‘classic’ movie theater by turning it into a rerun palace for ‘art films’, cult classics and other specialty cinema.
Also, I bought the DVD of Baraka that came out in the late 90s or so, and I was so disappointed in how visually awful the digital transfer was at that time, the disc was honestly not even worth watching. Not just because of small screens, the problem was that whoever did the digital transfer had completely fucked up the frame rate conversion in a way that caused every one of the many time-lapse sequences to move with a really annoying jitter. There was no possible playback setting or processing to fix it either, the process had removed information making it impossible to smooth or recover, at least back then.
So that junk DVD motivated me to just keep grabbing anyone I could, or no one if no one was around, and going out of my way to see the movie every time it came to a big screen within an hour of me. Now it’s been years since my last watch… I’m not sure how much more I could take of it now that it’s so clear the human race already sold out its long term survival for short term gain.
No matter how much I enjoyed a movie, I never felt the need to go through a shitty movie going experience twice for it.
The Matrix. I saw it at least four times in the theater.
Fantastic Planet, in the 80s.
The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit movies. If I could manage it usually would head up to the theater to re-watch every 1-2 weeks.
They were all movies released in December. I still distinctly remember heading up to the IMAX in Manhattan late night after work so the movie would finish up around midnight(?). After watching these movies I’d walk out of the theater into a cold and snowy NYC. Felt a bit surreal, especially after the last 2 Hobbit movies where most of the movies were centered around cold climates.
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Original Star Wars as a kid. The whole summer. 13 times. Have probably watched it more times since on streaming.
Nostalgia is a drug.
Saw Star Wars 26 times in the theater
We all paid for George Lucas’s second swimming pool that summer…
Shit, you got 1 more time than I did!
Back when they didn’t kick you out of the theater between showings; it was the only thing I asked my mom for money for that summer, as I recall.
Do you also feel like Lucas’ recut is a blaspheme?
I just look away during the Jabba scenes and the Han/Greedo shootout.
Heat. That shootout scene in particular is so much better on the big screen.
(The original) Fantasia in a cinema with a decent sound system.
I haven’t watched any movie in theaters in decades. Theaters suck.
People in theaters suck. Most people lack the respect and reverence for a shared experience of suspended disbelief.
I don’t understand why people like going to those. I’d rather watch a film in my comfy home than go to a loud, gross theatre
Captain Marvel, great 90s soundtrack and female superhero amongst a sea of male ones. Not the best marvel movie but enjoyable enough for me to watch twice.
Avengers: Endgame
The buildup to this movie was basically the perfect storm. And boy did it deliver. I doubt Marvel will ever be this good again. And actually, the fact that their trying to make every movie now an “Avengers” movie is exactly the reason it’s going downhill, in my opinion. Feels like almost every recent Marvel movie (Black Panther 2, Ant-Man Quantumania, Black Widow), they all have to be huge wars with multiple superheroes coming in to save the day. They cant just make a smaller scale superhero movie anymore. There have been a few exceptions, like Shang-Chi, and that one was way better. Avengers Endgame was so amazing in theaters because it was made on a decade of buildup.
Same thing with the comics, imho. Besides being too expensive, every Marvel and DC comic seems to be part of some giant crossover event.
Dune is the only movie I willingly rewatched at the cinema. Looking forward to the second part.
