Movies that you've seen all the way through more than 5 times

The original Star Wars movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
Blade Runner
Totoro
The Iron Giant
Dude, Where's My Car?
Delicatessen
It's a Wonderful Life
Akira
UHF

I think that's it.

Mad Max
Evildead II
Zardoz
Reflecting Skin
Wild At Heart
Blade Runner
A New Hope
Dunwich Horror
Spinal Tap
Fright Night
Flesh + Blood
others...

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The kids who grew up with vcr's and watched certain Disney moviews 350 times are going to own this thread.

Duck Soup
Spinal Tap
Blade Runner (tho different versions)
Basically every Disney flick from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King, and every Don Bluth flick from An American Tail to All Dogs Go to Heaven
Almost Famous (every night for a year when I was in high school)
Clueless (ditto, but junior high)
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
Chinatown
Other stuff not occurring to me at the moment.

Almost Famous (every night for a year when I was in high school)
Clueless (ditto, but junior high)

What, really?!

far too many to list, but my favourite movies to watch over and over are

Withnail & I
Tron
Wargames
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Dawn of the Dead

Yeah... first I had a crush on Alicia Silverstone (I was a young Jewish boy), and then I dreamt of being a famous rockNroll journalist. I am not embarrassed to admit this :P

Withnail & I (ha! snap, Ste!)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever
You Only Live Twice
Thunderball
Dr. No
Casino Royale (David Niven version)
original SW trilogy
Carry On Camping
It's A Wonderful Life
The Abyss
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II

Yeah... first I had a crush on Alicia Silverstone (I was a young Jewish boy), and then I dreamt of being a famous rockNroll journalist. I am not embarrassed to admit this :P

Still, every night for a year... Didn't you get bored with those movies?

Help
Psychomania
Chitty etc
Bedazzled
Hard Days Night
24 hour party people
Rock and Roll High School

Some of those are because of the kids requests.

I may have exaggerated a bit. Probably more like... 40-45 times over the year.

Altho maybe more often at times. It's hard to remember. There were weeks when I would turn Almost Famous on and watch it over and over.

Oh, also, I saw Sweeney Todd every night (literally now, without exaggeration) for about two weeks after it came out on DVD. Again, sorta playing on the television while I worked.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)

Back in 1994, I worked as an usher in a cinema for a few months so there's a batch of films from one moment in time that I've seen dozens and dozens and dozens of times:

Leon
Stargate
Pulp Fiction
Nightmare Before Christmas
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
La Reine Margot
Dumb & Dumber
Only You
The Lion King
Natural Born Killers
Muriel's Wedding
Heavenly Creatures
Shawshank Redemption
It Could Happen to You
Pret-a-Porter
Little Women
Madness of King George

Out of all those, the only one I'd willingly watch again is probably La Reine Margot.

Annie Hall
Big Lebowski
Gregory's Girl
Local Hero
Manhattan
Roadhouse
Simple Men
Spinal Tap
Tremors

I'd watch all those again.

Withnail & I

I ment to say I probably would watch Withnail & I again. Just seen it too many times.

Star Warses
Dazed & Confused
Annie Hall
The Sweet Hereafter
Rear Window
A Thousand Clowns
Clerks
Mallrats
Barton Fink
Big Lebowski
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Grosse Point Blank
All those Disney movies
Annie (as a kid I watched this so much the tape sort of disintegrated)

plenty more, I'm sure

Oh yeah. I've seen Annie Hall at least a dozen times over the years.

A lot

Mommie Dearest for sure. Also Poltergeist, Creepshow, Beetlejuice and Light is Calling.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Gregory's Girl
Muriel's Wedding
Grease
The Princess Bride
Withnail & I (I think everyone my age has seen this 100000 times)
Local Hero
Annie Hall
both the Bill & Ted films

There are probably way more than this, but these probably top the list.

Predator
Yentl

^^^ a bit of an odd combination...
And now I have Arnie shouting "run to da choppa!!!" playing on a loop in my head...

Yentl was a joke i confess

tommy boy

Off the top of my head (some of I don't even rate that highly but I keep watching them when they crop up on TV):

Pulp Fiction
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Alien vs Predator
Hellboy
Reservoir Dogs
Deep Cover
The Matrix
Rob Roy
Star Wars IV and V
Dogma
Roadhouse
The Karate Kid I and II
Fargo
Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Airplane
Evil Dead I and II
Blade Runner
Every Disney film my kids own
Die Hard I and III
Every Superhero film my kids own
Mad Max I and II
All of the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns and probably a couple of the Dirty Harry films
Unforgiven
Braveheart
Raiders
Cool Hand Luke
Butch & Sundance
Top Gun
Ghost
Candyman
McVicar
Kentucky Fried Movie
Blazing Saddles
The Krays
The Champ
Rainman

I think I've managed to ween myself off of watching SW trilogy/any Bond movie whenever they are on TV.

I annoy myself by watching movies on TV that I already own on DVD. I sit and put up with adverts rather than getting off my arse and sticking a disk in the player.

I did this last week with Jackie Brown (which probably just misses the cut for this thread)--I don't think I would ever just, on a weeknight, pop in a dvd of a movie I've seen before. But if it's on tv, well, that's a different story.

Anyway the point is that any time life gives you the opportunity to watch Jackie Brown, you grab it with both hands.

I annoy myself by watching movies on TV that I already own on DVD. I sit and put up with adverts rather than getting off my arse and sticking a disk in the player.

it's the "live" experience ;)

only films I've seen 5 times or more are Disney movies I guess. Usually when I think a movie is really really awesome I dare not to watch it again.

In the theater, I saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" eight times and "Pulp Fiction" right at five times.

I used to drink with a guy who every night would go home and watch "Apocolypse Now" in its entirety. Not sure what happened to him.

Not sure you want to know.

What snapped me out of the habit was watching Bond movies on ITV1, where they'd insert commercials and two thirds of the way through there'd be a 15 minute news break.

oh i forgot Natural Born Killers, which i watched half a dozen times at the flicks and then numerous times on dvd

Damn I missed Ferris Bueller and the Princess Bride off the list. Both of which I want to watch now. I could do with a laugh.

None since childhood (except possibly Life Of Brian), although my partner has seen Withnail & I around 12 to 15 times. I hardly ever watch a film twice, for that matter. Don't buy me DVDs for Christmas.

Dude, Where's My Car?

???

Pretty sure I've not seen any film more than five times. Maybe I've seen Mulholland Drive, Star Wars, 2001, Billy Liar, some Bond films as many as four or five times, but not more. There are too many other things to watch!

big lebowski
phantom of the opera (when i was younger!)
a lot of disney movies
the sandlot
the godfather

not many.

Quiz Show
The Wizard of Oz
The Draughtsman's Contract
Mrs Doubtfire

i'd watch the first two again.

Psychomania

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^kudos

The Wizard of Oz
Hitchcock: Vertigo, Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt etc
Planet of the Apes
Casablanca
all the 1929-37 Marx Bros films
Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan
Chinatown
Nashville
several Preston Sturges comedies
Berlin Alexanderplatz (j/k)

2001: A Space Odyssey
Cool Hand Luke
Eraserhead
The Road Warrior
Magnolia

2001 and Strangelove too
Some Like It Hot

Psychomania

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^kudos

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It was on TV recently, and we watched it together for the 1st time, was suspecting the verdict "turn this shite off" was coming, but there's something that keeps you watching to the end.

Oh, and also recognising Langley (slough) shopping centre...

Anything that was on hbo in the mid 80s to early 90s.

First three Star Wars films.
First two Indiana Jones films.
Care Bears the Movie.
Transformers the Movie/
GI Joe the Movie.

Those kind of don't count as they were all childhood fixations. Or, in the case of the Care Bears movie, the childhood fixation of my friend Jonnie's little sister that we got lumped with quite often.

As an adolescent / adult...

Predator
Terminator 2
Aliens
Magnolia
Fight Club
Clueless
Children of Men
The Bourne Identity
Koyaanisqatsi
Waking Life
Spirited Away
The Incredibles
Napoleon Dynamite
Batman Begins

Various superhero films and recent comedies are probably at 3 to 4 full views, including the first 2 X-Men films, Superbad, The Dark Knight, 40 Year Old Virgin. Dark Knight's out on DVD on Monday so will go tearing into the 5+ list shortly.

Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan

Holy crap how did I forget Sleeper? Def. seen that about 10 times.
Anyone keeping count?

Anything that was on hbo in the mid 80s to early 90s.

Yeah, I wouldn't be half-surprised to see something on this thread like;

2001, A Space Odyssey
Casablanca
The Grapes of Wrath
It's A Wonderful Life
High Noon
Beastmaster

oh Fight Club ditto

Empire Records
Mulholland Drive
Fanny and Alexander
probably The Matrix

Best in Show

Anyone mention River's Edge yet? I watched that thing over and over when I was a teen >>> "Get your nunchuks and your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun."

Belle du Jour
If....

Happiness of the Katakuris is another semi-recent one I've watched a bunch of times.

M
Mishima
Hawk the Slayer

are ones I can think of that haven't been listed already.

Paris Texas

"I don't get the "I wouldn't wanna watch any film twice, there are too many other films" thing anymore than I would get "I wouldn't wanna listen to any song twice, there are too many songs".

For me it's a ration where--->reading a book x2 = watching a movie x5 = listening to a song x25.

Something like that anyway. Certainly a song has more replay value than a movie to me simply because there's more room for your mind to wander. Also the time commitment of book vs song vs movie...

And by ration I mean ratio.

Ration works too, though.

I watched the John Milius classic Red Dawn about a dozen times when I was 9.

Thought there are exceptions, I notice that I'll rarely rewatch anything too seriously intended, slow-paced or grimly downbeat. The things I watch over and over are cartoonish horror flicks (i.e., NOT Audition), Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff, "trippy" movies (as indefensible as that description may be), and a few eye-candy classics (The Third Man, Night of the Hunter).

Agree with Edward III that the movies getting the most love here are almost all canonical net list classics.

Anyone mention River's Edge yet? I watched that thing over and over when I was a teen >>> "Get your nunchuks and your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun."

oooh me too!!! many lines from this movie have made it into my circle of friends' lexicon.

"Motherfucker! FOOD EATER!"

"N-O spells nuh-uh".

"The THINGS I do for my FUCKING friends"

"Hurry your ass!"

"Wasting pigs is radical, man."

"Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut."

cats got claws man!

"and I'm thinking to myself... I wonder if there's any beer left in that can"

Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
Grease
Stand By Me
This Boy’s Life
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Blade Runner
Once Were Warriors
Batman Begins
Running on Empty
A Few Good Men
Fight Club
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future Part I

I think I counted 8 people who mentioned evil dead 2 but only one of them mentioned army of darkness

OSS 117 (this is probably the one movie I've seen the most and would most gladly watch again from this list)
Matrix
Star Wars original trilogy
Casino Royale (Daniel Craig one)
2046 and In The Mood for Love
Rules of the Game
Terminator 2
Badlands
Fitzcarraldo
Indiana Jones first three
X Men 2
Children of men
loads of disney movies
Cité de la peur (french comedy)
Shaun of the dead
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance

I'm not sure there is a single movie that I've seen five times (I would think Star Wars or Empire is the most likely and even there I don't think I hit five.)

Forgot to mention Ed Wood - I love that film.

More than five times? Geez. I'm not entirely certain if any film meets that standard for me. If any do, they'd be:

It's A Wonderful Life
The Maltese Falcon

There are several I've seen about 4-5 times, but that list wouldn't be very long, either.

Animalympics
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
ET
The Princess Bride
Tween movies that I watched a lot between ages 7-12: stuff like The Sandlot, Camp Nowhere, Casper, House Arrest etc.
Teen movies that I watched a lot between ages 11-18: Empire Records, Can't Hardly Wait, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, The Breakfast Club etc.
Star Wars, BTTF, Indiana Jones trilogies
Batman, Batman Returns, and Batman Begins
both Bill & Ted
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
Seven
Mallrats
Mean Girls
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Fifth Element
Top Secret!
Top Gun
Zodiac (my brother and I watched this every day for a week a few months ago)
24 Hour Party People

before turning 12..

Beetlejuice
The Great Outdoors
Batman
Jurassic Park
The Little Mermaid
Cinderella
Lady And The Tramp
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Back To The Future
Weird Science
Spaceballs
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Woodstock

and after that point..

Gummo .. at least 15 times
Silence Of The Lambs .. at least 10 times
Trainspotting .. at least 5 times
Scream .. at least 7 times over the course of one week in summer 1997, and maybe 2-3 times since then
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls .. last year i watched this 5 times in a week
Wet Hot American Summer .. at least 5 times
Requiem For A Dream .. probably in the 4-6 range, it might have been 5 times
Rushmore .. 5-6 times
Bully .. 5-6 times
Nowhere .. 5-6 times
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas .. 6-7 times
Pulp Fiction .. probably around 8 times
Ace Venture Pet Detective
The Mask
Dumb And Dumber
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
Austin Powers, i never saw the other 2

Born around what year? I'd never heard of this movie until reading about it in an ILX thread.. rented it last year and thought it was crap.. i'll probably never watch it again.

I'm 35. It was massively cult classic required viewing for lol students in the early 90s. Perhaps just a Britisher thing?

I keep adding flicks to my list when I see other people's lists. And I think that's because 5 flicks really that much. You could hit 5 just by watching the same flick with a few different groups of people. I'm pretty sure that's how I saw Airplane and Pulp Fiction 5 times apiece. I certainly didn't go back to them. They just always seem to be on in party-esque situations.

Maybe we need a Movies that you've seen all the way through more than 10 times. That will just leave a few obsessive loves of mine, and of course, most of the Disney output.

I'm 35. It was massively cult classic required viewing for lol students in the early 90s. Perhaps just a Britisher thing?

It's not just a Britisher thing.

The original Star Wars movies
Indiana Jones, all except recent one.
Delicatessen
It's a Wonderful Life
Spinal Tap
Lord of the Rings, extended :(
Castaway
Leon
X-men all three
Sin City
Plane trains and automobiles
Kingpin
Alien & Aliens
The abyss
Pulp fiction
Big Lebowski
Die hardsss
Unforgiven + many other Eastwood ones
Enemy of the state
Saving private Ryan
It's a Wonderful Life
Back to the future 1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Casino
Goodfellas
The thing
Big trouble in little china
Master and Commander
Kill Bills
The fugitive
Patriot games
Clear and present danger
Jaws, original, might watch that tonight now.
Goonies
Terminators, all
Children of men
Shawshank redemption
Poltergeist
Fifth element
Amalie
Oldboy
Best in show
Sideways
City of god
Most Coen brothers
War of the worlds
Devils backbone

Erm cough er Notting hill, it’s my guilty pleasure.

To all the ones i've missed off, soz!

I have insomnia to thank for the time to watch these.

Everything by Tarkovsky except Steamroller/Violin & Sacrifice
Death Powder, Tetsuo, Pinocchio 964
Vital
Wizards
Fantastic Planet
Akira
Metropolis
Der Golem
R&R High School
Sherlock Jr., Steamboat Bill Jr., other assorted Keaton
El Topo
Tommy
Satyricon
The Great Cake Adventure

Tombstone
Dazed and Confused
25th Hour
Wedding Crashers
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Trainspotting
High Fidelity
Wonder Boys
The 13th Warrior
crazy/beautiful
Kiss Me Deadly

And I think that's because 5 flicks really (isn't?) that much.

Generational difference at work.

VCRs didn't come in until I was in my 30s and I've never been that big on owning copies of movies in order to watch them incessantly. By the 4th time the film just doesn't hold many surprises any more, and I'd generally rather watch somehting new to me.

I suspect if you grew up with a VCR in the house, you took it for granted that you rewatched the movies you owned over and over.

It isn't really VCRs so much as growing up in the 80s and 90s, and all the various cable channels that seemed to play the same movies over and over again.

It's kind of bizarre to contemplate the times before home video and cable when if you wanted to see a movie and it was no longer in theaters you were pretty much SOL unless a rep house (if there even was one near enough to bother with) decided to run it. Of course, I lived in those times when I was just a kid. But I expect most of ILX finds that situation just incomprehensible.

All those cable channels didn't come until I was verging into middle age, too. By then I had too many responsibilities to be able to watch the same movie over and over just to keep boredom at bay.

In truth, I've never paid for more than the most basic bare bones cable, with just the broadcast channels, CSPAN and a few shopping channels tossed in as filler.

I'm sure there's a few movies I've watched this much: Dr. Strangelove, Duck Soup, Heathers, Dangerous Liaisons, The Big Lebowski, Bad Santa and The Wild Bunch come to mind, but I'll bet there's a few more of my beloved favorites that I'm forgetting. Now, though, my palette has expanded enough that I mostly want to find something new and different and exciting. There really aren't many movies that actually reward this kind of obsessive rewatching. Some criteria that might do it:

Spectacular production numbers/set pieces of some kind that never loses its excitement. There's a few kungfu and musical movies that might could go on my list for this reason.

Richness of plot, character, theme, performance. I'm thinking particularly of The Wild Bunch and Dangerous Liaisons here - I never get tired of the interactions among those characters.

A movie that's right for a particular occasion. Bad Santa is the ONLY Christmas movie as far as I'm concerned, so I've watched it on each Christmas eve ever since its release.

Funniness that doesn't erode: Big L, Duck Soup, Strangelove. Marijuana may help, but is not strictly needed.

Akira
Simpsons Movie
Trainspotting
Caddyshack
The Power of Salad (and Milkshakes)
Clerks
Mallrats
Peewee's Big Adventure
Finding Nemo

OH OH OH THE 80S FLASH GORDON! Must've watched that once every six months for about three years.

Jaws
Vertigo
Back to the Future
8 1/2

Oh yeah, probably Scrooged!

Add all three Back to the Future movies to my list, since I bought the blurays. Guardians of the Galaxy will make it too soon, I think, I've watched it 4 times already.

It's kinda interesting that almost all of the movies on my list are ones I first saw as a kid/teen, though I've watched many of them as an adult too. Dude, Where My Car? is pretty much the only one I saw first as an adult. I guess one just has more time and a bigger tolerance for rewatching movies as a kid?

Threads

I've never seen Threads, but isn't it supposed to be a horribly depressing flick or something?

I'm a horribly depressing person. It fits me well.

Children of Men
The Wicker Man

Don't think I've rewatched many films in my adult life, but there must be a bunch of kids films and cartoons - an animated version of Baron Von Munchausen, The Snowman, the Jungle Book, Hook that either I or my younger brothers and sisters watched continuously in early days.

Everyone should watch Threads at least once in their life.

Must have seen the first Star Wars a lot of times by now.

oh and Trainspotting, as a teen. It's p much unwatchable now IIRC

Oh oh, and Spirited Away I'm sure. Actually there are more than I thought..

Dozens of 'em.

Silence of the Lambs
Top Gun
Godfather I/II
Goodfellas
Heat

would probably be my top 5 by views

as a kid:
fifth element
jurassic park
star trek first contact
star wars original trilogy
back to the future
independence day
beetlejuice
tim burton batman
aladdin
beauty and the beast

now:
blade runner
stalker
2001 a space odyssey
chinatown
sans soleil
late spring
paris is burning
hausu
kwaidan
paprika
inland empire
sunrise

Honestly not sure I can think of one — maybe Lawrence of Arabia, but I'm not sure of five all-the-way-through screenings of that. A lot of the kids' films that our daughter watched repeatedly, I checked out mentally while they were on and read/listened to music instead.