Which movie have you seen the most times?

[UsuallyPresent]

Has nothing on Ursula demonstrating "body language".

Fair point.

Although, honestly I barely remember Little Shop of Horrors.

The Dentist.

 

[NuclearFairy]

The Dentist.

The Dentist?

 

[Milo9012]

Nightmare On Elm Street
Hellraiser
Jurassic Park
Candyman
Wishmaster
Leprechaun
Child's Play
Care Bears
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Howl's Moving Castle
Sleepaway Camp
Jaws
The Crazies
From Beyond
Re-Animator
Basket Case
Street Trash
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Princess Mononoke
Akira
Ninja Scroll
Dark City
Labyrinth
The Last Unicorn
Goonies
Legend
The Princess Bride
Nightmare Before Christmas
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Repo! A Genetic Opera
Devil's Carnival
Sweeney Todd
Across the Universe
Bram Stoker's Dracula
An American Werewolf in London
Evil Dead
Bubba Ho-Tep
Naked Gun
Fletch
The Crow
The Prophecy (Viggo as Lucifer... Fuck.)



A lot more that I can't think of at the moment.

So... I binge these (and most sequels) basically every year for My birthday, my anniversary, my husband's birthday, Halloween, and/or when I'm sick. And have for the better part of a decade or since they came out/I first watched them.

These great choices of yours are favs of mine too:
The Crazies
From Beyond
Re-Animator
Dark City
Bram Stoker's Dracula

I'd add to those:
The NeverEnding Story
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

 

[UsuallyPresent]

The Dentist?

Steve Martin’s character from the movie version with Rick Moranis as Seymour. Sadistic plant food.

 

[PennyThompson]

Most of these are not the best movies I've ever seen, but they're definitely the ones that I've re-watched the most!

Kiki's Delivery Service
Spirited Away
Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition)
Romeo+Juliet
Constantine
The Mummy
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Knives Out

 

[sister jenny]

I LOVE re-watching movies and re-read books all the time.
Ok, which movies have I seen the most?

9 1/2 Weeks
Office Space
Ghost Dog
Blue is the warmest colour
Seven Samurai
The Red Rocket
Show Me Love
Bound
The Night of the hunter
Lost in Translation
The Batman
Tenet
Fury Road
Furiosa

Probably missed a ton.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

It Happened One Night is a classic I've seen dozens of times and will watch dozens more.

Five others I multi-veiw:
His Girl Friday
The Hidden
To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou dir.)
Sucker Punch (2011, Zack Snyder dir.)
V For Vendetta

I think those comedies of remarriage can be watched over and over again. It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday, Philadelphia Story, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth. There’s no maximum to the amount of times they can be watched.

 

[Milo9012]

Most of these are not the best movies I've ever seen, but they're definitely the ones that I've re-watched the most!

Kiki's Delivery Service
Spirited Away
Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition)
Romeo+Juliet
Constantine
The Mummy
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Knives Out

I have watched Scott Pilgrim vs. The World at least 30 times. I love that movie.

Just watched it again yesterday.

 

[Milo9012]

I LOVE re-watching movies and re-read books all the time.
Ok, which movies have I seen the most?

9 1/2 Weeks
Office Space
Ghost Dog
Blue is the warmest colour
Seven Samurai
The Red Rocket
Show Me Love
Bound
The Night of the hunter
Lost in Translation
The Batman
Tenet
Fury Road
Furiosa

Probably missed a ton.

Those are some good ones.

 

[stickygirl]

Arrival
The Outrun
Lucy
The Bourne series
Portrait of a young woman on fire
Little women ( latest version )

 

[SmilingLez]

Not exactly books or movies, but I have a sort of fixation on cartoons: the hilarity, the jaunty lightness with which they move through a flat world -- can’t stop watching them.

the old black and white Betty Boop cartoons are fascinating to watch.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Not having many videos in the 80s when hardly anyone actually bought them, meant I watched a few films on repeat, especially when pretending to revise for exams, or indeed revising and not wanting to be too distracted.

So I've seen Dirty Dancing and The Lost Boys at least 50 times each. And still associate certain of their songs with certain exam topics.

Other than that, not many films score more than twice - Rocky Horror and Labyrinth and Back to the Future maybe 3+.

Loads of classic films I've never seen, so spouse and I are watching a few. Saw My Cousin Vinny recently - loved it!

 

[XerXesXu]

High Noon x ~5
K-Pop Demon Hunters x 2

 

[GaryDickins]

Star Wars (1977). Remember, back at that time there was no Episode IV designation; there was no "A New Hope" extension.

I've had a theory, which is being challenged by this discussion mind you, that the movie you see most often is the one that changes the way you view movies. I was a kid in 1977 and the first five minutes of seeing the original Star Wars in a movie theater completely changed what I thought was possible to depict in a movie. It's also one of the most perfect representations of the full arc of the hero's journey ever captured on film. I was the perfect age to find Luke aspirational, Leia attainable, Darth Vader terrifying, the androids hilarious, and Han Solo the epitome of cool.

I've always thought that whatever film did that for someone at the theater for the first time would be the movie they would always come back to over and over and over again.

 

[Off_base]

The Day After Tomorrow
Cast Away

Equally overindulged.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

Harry Met Sally and La Regle du Jeu for me.

 

[zysmith]

The most overall is easy, The American President. The most in the theatre, I have to go way back... Silver Streak.

 

[Bramblethorn]

As a kid, I used to demand the same movie every time my parents went to the video store. EVERY TIME. Not gonna name it since I think I may have written about it under my real name, but think cheesy 80s along the lines of "Herbie Rides Again". That one may well be the winner overall.

Other contenders:

A bunch of the old Ealing Studios black-and-whites
The Hunger (my first real awareness of lesbianing)
Hot Fuzz
The D&D movie (not really up there yet because it's too recent, but I suspect it's on the way)
Groundhog Day
The Talented Mr. Ripley
LotR
Pan's Labyrinth

edit: and most of the Monty Python movies obviously
edit edit: Knives Out! and Glass Onion will probably be up there too in a few years

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've always thought that whatever film did that for someone at the theater for the first time would be the movie they would always come back to over and over and over again.

I tend to agree. For me, that's Kubrick's 2001, which I've seen at least fifteen times in a cinema, but only once on the giant curved screen, 70mm projection, for which it was designed. I first saw the movie aged twelve, and knew that it was different to anything that had gone before. And for a very, very long time, different to anything that followed. Best movie, ever, for me.

Kubrick being the master of promotion, tagged the tenth anniversary release (the version I saw on the curved screen): "Before Star Wars there was, and always will be, 2001: A Space Odyssey."

As a teen, a mate and I used to go to the local uni's Sunday night film club, where every week for five or six years we saturated ourselves in the classics of world cinema. Our parents took turns driving us there, every week. That's a lot of cinema's absolute best.

One of my very absolute favourites is a little known Bergman movie, My Summer with Monika, about a teenage boy meeting Monika, one summer on a beach. Made in 1953. A beautiful, gentle story, it's possibly the genesis of my erotic nostalgia writing.

 

[Milo9012]

How could I have left this one out...
A League of Their Own
Coming on in a couple of minutes on Starz Encore!

This will be, what?, maybe my 40ish viewing.
Just watched it a couple of days ago.

 

[RejectReality]

Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, and Life of Brian are all up there. Which one is in which position I don't know. Next tier is Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blues Brothers, Strange Brew, Unforgiven, Heartbreak Ridge.

Spaceballs and Citizens on Patrol get a boost because they were in the "on every couple of hours" stage on HBO about the time we got cable. Blazing Saddles was on broadcast TV all the time back in the day, as was Young Frankenstein, but Dad apparently preferred Blazing Saddles, because I remember seeing it more often, so it got a boost there. Was so tickled when a DVD finally came out with deleted Mongo scenes proving I wasn't insane about the stuff I remembered from broadcast TV that they stuck in there to pad the runtime after all the stuff that got cut out. LOL

A few things are creeping up on them now. Lincoln, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Happy Gilmore, Guardians of the Galaxy, Billy Madison, Avengers Infinity War/Endgame, Iron Man.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Premium Rush and Scott pilgrim are the two I know I've watched the most. Some Jackie Chan movie or Ip Man is probably a close third.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

First off I'm a dude.

My feminine side of my brain:
Untamed Heart
Some Kind of Wonderful
Family Man
She's All That

My questionable side of my brain:
A Few Good Men
Hunt For Red October
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(shhhh) Rocky Horror Picture Show

I'm positive there are many more......

Untamed Heart is so wonderfully sad.

 

[Zrosey]

Hmmm, pretty sure the original Matrix would be my most watched, followed in no order by,
Rocky Horror
Me and Earl and the dying Girl
Grave of the Fireflies
and a bunch of the Star Trek NG fits in there too

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

I tend to agree. For me, that's Kubrick's 2001, which I've seen at least fifteen times in a cinema, but only once on the giant curved screen, 70mm projection, for which it was designed. I first saw the movie aged twelve, and knew that it was different to anything that had gone before. And for a very, very long time, different to anything that followed. Best movie, ever, for me.

Kubrick being the master of promotion, tagged the tenth anniversary release (the version I saw on the curved screen): "Before Star Wars there was, and always will be, 2001: A Space Odyssey."

As a teen, a mate and I used to go to the local uni's Sunday night film club, where every week for five or six years we saturated ourselves in the classics of world cinema. Our parents took turns driving us there, every week. That's a lot of cinema's absolute best.

One of my very absolute favourites is a little known Bergman movie, My Summer with Monika, about a teenage boy meeting Monika, one summer on a beach. Made in 1953. A beautiful, gentle story, it's possibly the genesis of my erotic nostalgia writing.

My Summer With Monika is a truly fabulous film. Very hot too.

I imagine you’ll be aware of this but it was a real influence on the French new wave boys. I believe Truffaut even has a moment in The 400 Blows when his main character steals a promo photo of Monika from the entrance to a cinema.