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I've been toying with this as a topic for a while. Do you have any one film you've seen way more than others, or are there a few? I've been going over and over in my head about which ones. I have to call it somewhat of a draw. My most viewed list is probably 100 times or more each.
If I had to come up with one, it would probably be Jaws. Weekly in the theater on it's original release, at least weekly in the theater on it's 1979 re-release, and countless regular viewings through the decades. Honestly, impossible to quantify.
Close runners-up, in no particular order;
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Alien - also my first ever home video of a film (VHS).
Star Wars
Planet Of The Apes
Logan's Run
Back To The Future
Night Shift
Apocalypse Now
The list is longer than I thought it would be, but I'm crowding 50. I've been in the game a while. It adds up.
There are a few more that are very heavily viewed, but not at the same level as the list above.
Star Trek II
The Star Wars Trilogy
MAD MAX
Interview With The Vampire
The Terminator
The Wolf Man '41
(i may have seen Star Trek 2 a thousand times by now)
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The Original Star Wars Trilogy (I'm probably with most on this site)
At one point this would have been an easy question answered by a few Disney movies. But now, I have absolutely no idea. In terms of in-theaters, ET takes the cake with three times - once for the special edition, twice for separate revival screenings. The only Star Wars tape I wore out was IV, so I guess that should go on the list too.
It's really easy to confuse "most viewed" with "favorite" unless one of your most viewed is something you've seen recently again.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
A Hard Day's Night
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Blade Runner
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Dune
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Superman
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Jaws
Rocky
Diamond's are Forever
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A Christmas Story
The movie I've watched the most would be the original Star Wars, hands down. A few years ago I tried to figure out how many times I'd seen it. I figured I watched it on VHS at least once every couple weeks as a kid, which I did for 3 or 4 years. Then, approaching my teens, my viewings dropped to about once every 1 or 2 months, which lasted a couple more years. From my mid teens to the present, I've probably had a chance to sit down and enjoy it once or twice a year, so all said and done I figure I've seen Star Wars no less than 150 times.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Ghostbusters
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Star Wars and Raiders. When I was younger, Toy Story comes close.
I have to say Stargate. It was my favourite movie for a long time; I watched it frequently from 1999 through to 2006/7.
No. 1: Live and Let Die very closely followed by Dr. No through The Living Daylights.
Licence to Kill and the Brosnan films a bit less.
The OT and 97 SE
Everything else is pretty equal, but here's some other contenders:
Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Man with No Name trilogy
Citizen Kane
Raiders
Blade Runner
Dr. Strangelove
Bridge on the River Kwai-Lawrence of Arabia-Doctor Zhivago
Vertigo, Notorious
The Godfather
The Third Man
Chinatown
and I could go on forever...
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Great thread. I think this is in order:
Ghostbusters
Aladdin (watched it tons when I was a kid and now my kids love it)
Goonies
Gremlins 2
The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Princess Bride
Ghostbusters 2
(I'm sure there's a couple I'm missing but I've been drinking..)
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Thanks to my taping of the ITV premier of Star Wars I guess I've seen that film more times than anything else.
But since then I try to keep really good films as a rare treat so as to not spoil them.
So perversely I have probably seen TPM more times (due to fan edits) than ESB by now.
I've also seen Aliens more times than Alien even though I don't regard the sequel anywhere near as much as the original.
Musicals on the other hand I see as a visual music album so I never tire of watching Rocky Horror, Hedwig And The Angry Inch or Tommy and have seen them hundreds of times.
In terms of theatrical viewings it has to be Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom which I watched 17 times on it's first release because I had a crush on Harrison Ford who was kind enough to get his boobs out for a reasonable stretch of the film which was released as my hormones were in full flood.
Raiders however I only saw twice theatrically and only then when on re-release after being dragged along largely against my will by friends.
It seemed to be some kind of war film with aspects of a Western about it going by the trailer and the poster and neither of the genres appealed to me when I was eleven.
When I saw it I fell in love with the film and got it on Betamax as soon as possible but my dad got rid of our Betamax player so I couldn't watch it for years.
It's still the only Indiana Jones film that works for me and I still reserve it as a rare treat.
This should be interesting =P:
Harry and the Hendersons
The Land Before Time
Short Circuit 2
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Godzilla (Hard to pin down any specific title I used to watch all of my collection a lot)
Goonies
Robocop
Star Wars trilogy
Young Frankenstein
Starship Troopers... bar none.
The OT.
The Prestige is working it's way up there...
...as is sadly "Thomas the Tank Engine and the Misty Island Rescue."
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Bingowings said:
I try to keep really good films as a rare treat so as to not spoil them.
That's been my practice as well for about 30 years. It does keep them very special. Blade Runner only on cold rainy nights, Alien only at night, The Conversation only during December, Jaws on the 4th of July, etc, etc.
My wife always goofs on my rules, but it makes the films always very special and always a continuation of the original discovery.
Still is Back to the Future.
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Bingowings said:
I try to keep really good films as a rare treat so as to not spoil them.
That's been my practice as well for about 30 years. It does keep them very special.
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The original Star Wars for sure, followed by Empire Strikes Back. I have no idea how many times I've seen them; a few times a year for about 25 years, with some years having periods of watching them a few times a month. At least a hundred times, at least the original. Sometimes I can't actually believe I still enjoy it--I sit down and watch it each time and it's like the first time all over again, somehow it still entertains me. My family would always say that, they'd see me clicking through the TV stations and I'd find Star Wars on and I would just sit and watch it and they can only say "how many times have you seen this movie?" It's also the film I've seen the most in theatres, since I saw it five or six times in 1997 (otherwise Inception takes the cake at three or four screenings).
Other than that, the list of most-seen films for me is a bit random. I'd probably say these are contenders for the list:
-Terminator
-Predator
-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
-Superman IV
-Matrix
-Jurassic Park
-Transformers: The Movie (1986)
-Aliens
-Alien
-Wizard of Oz
-Dawn of the Dead
-Ravenous
-Spaceballs
-Cocoon
-Neverending Story
-Evil Dead II
-Fight Club
A mix of a lot of stuff I watched a million times as a kid, and still do to this day, and stuff I discovered as a teen. I would say the Terminator possibly tops the non-SW list, as I had it on tape when I was five and loved it and didn't see Terminator 2 until many years later. There's a lot of stuff that I also watched a ton when I was younger but then haven't watched that much since, like Willow and Masters of the Universe. Goonies, Star Trek II and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are also runners up, but I feel like I don't watch them that much these days, maybe once every five years, while the rest I see at least every two. Actually I just saw Masters of the Universe yesterday (on Youtube no less) for the first time since the mid-1990s and it was much better than I was anticipating it to be, Dolph Lundgren and that pseudo-homo-erotic scene where skeletor has him whipped naked aside.
Actually, for someone who often has bad things to say about it, I've seen Phantom Menace almost as much as those. But hey, I guess it is in the same company as Superman IV and Masters of the Universe. I would probably remember TPM more fondly today if I just stopped watching it! Prequels: Good if you don't watch them. I also saw it four times in theatres, making it a runner-up for most-viewed theatrical.
Funnily, ROTJ doesn't even come close to making this list. I probably only saw it five or six times as a kid (haha, "only") and ended up tape-recording Super Dave Osbourne over parts of it. And this was way before the ROTJ Sucks meme was around! I know that I fast-forwarded to the space battle and lightsaber duels a bunch though. I had an idea when I was eight to make a dub which edited together the space battle into one long sequence, which I may finally do now! I tried to get this experience back then by just skipping from segment to segment; probably much easier now with DVD chapters. I guess the film always bored me except for a few action parts.
I've got my little film rituals too.
LOTR- All day Thanksgiving.
All 6 Star Wars films in Engligh- New Years Day
Universal, RKO, and Hammer Horror- All October
Independence Day- Independence Day
Matrix, Blade Runner, Sunset Blvd., Silverado are my late night can't sleep movies.
Clue- Almost anytime I have company who want to watch a movie.
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Condorman
GHHHAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!! Awesome ! I've never seen it again :(