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.
I think the only movie I’ve seen multiple times in the theater was Black Panther
RHPS doesn’t really count imo as it’s more of a musical or social event than a movie… it’s honestly on a completely different level.
Matrix. I think I’ve watched it over 30times
Over 30 times in a cinema or overall?
That best my top movie. Which is also Matrix, but I only saw it 3 times in the theater.
Cinema around 12 times (best friend was a Cinema manager back then), the rest at home. Occasionally I throw in the Blu-ray and watch it from time to time…
Flash Gordon is the one I’ve seen most in the cinema. I was absolutely captivated by it as a kid. It must have had a decent run in the cinema as I was very young when it was released.
Related story - My folks were picking someone up at the airport around that time. After they met they went for a drink in the airport bar right next to arrivals and I absolutely traumatised every single patron by playing the theme tune by Queen on repeat with my pocket money until it ran out.
edit: To be clear, the damage was done before my folks realised what was going on. Money. Select. Money. Select. They were quite embarrassed.
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FLASH… AHHHHHH!
Saviour of the Universe!
He’ll save every one of us
He’s a miracle (This mornings unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm)
Lawrence of Arabia. Saw the restored version three times in the theater
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.
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I also went to see this in the cinema a few times as a kid and loved it. I happened to rewatch it a few weeks ago as I hadn’t seen it since.
My advice is to keep your treasured memories. It unfortunately doesn’t hold up well. :)
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.
I skipped school (and got away with it) to watch lotr:2towers 3 times in one day at the theater
When I was a kid, Nightmare Before Christmas. Must’ve convinced my parents to take me to see it at least eight times. I’ve watched it at least once every year since then, and it stayed my favorite movie for most of my life, until Everything Everywhere All at Once finally usurped it almost 30 years later. Saw that in theaters four times.
Oh, and Lord of the Rings. Saw all three in theaters at least three times each. And, for some reason, Superbad. Went to five showings of that.
Odd, Superbad is the only movie I’ve ever seen twice (or more) in the theaters.
I saw it and thought it was the funniest movie I’d ever seen, then a couple weeks later my buddy wanted to see a movie so I saw it a second time with him. No regrets.
I saw The Fellowship of the Ring nine times in theaters. Once i hit time #4 or #5, I realized i had to keep going until I could say i saw it once for each member of the fellowship.
Original Star Wars as a kid. The whole summer. 13 times. Have probably watched it more times since on streaming.
Nostalgia is a drug.
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.
Saw Star Wars 26 times in the theater
We all paid for George Lucas’s second swimming pool that summer…
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.
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Now here’s the question of the evening:
The old one or the new one?
