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.
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Lawrence of Arabia. Saw the restored version three times in 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
I actually walked out of Schindlers List and bough a ticket for the very next screening.
Bleak as hell but I’d never seen a film that locked me in the way that film did.
Why did you walk out? Did you not want to see the ending the first time?
I thought it would build anticipation.
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.
Wreck it Ralph. Infinity War. Into the Spider-Verse. Watched them twice each in IMAX.
BMX Bandits
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. :)
Inception. I saw it 4 times in theaters. Every time, I noticed new details. It was such a unique and original story, and it was executed incredibly well. I had never seen a movie where the score was so essential to the storytelling. It’s such a dense movie that despite being 2.5 hours, I don’t think I could cut 2 minutes out of it without really hurting the pacing or missing necessary moments. Inception is the reason I can understand and appreciate both filmmaking and the composition and arrangement of instrumental music.
Same here. But even after rewatching it so many times, I never realized that the iconic Inception BWAAAH is actually a super-slowed down version of the dream world cue song (Edith Piaf’s Non, je ne regrette rien). There’s a really neat analysis done by Rutgers’ Christopher Doll, which explains how Zimmer uses the slowed down motif to signal which dreamscape we are in as the viewer while watching the movie. Link here.
That’s exactly what I meant when I said that the score is essential. And it’s super fucking cool that the orchestra includes an electric guitar and an electric cello. As much as I love the score for Interstellar, I don’t know if Inception’s score even can be topped! Star Wars is the only thing that comes close imho.
Dream or no dream?
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.
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.
I watched “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” a total of 6 times in cinema (and the extended edition countless times on DVD since then) and still think very fondly of the experience. Just experiencing the awe when the beacons were lit and the camera flew through the mountains and the mind blowing moment when the Riders of Rohan appear on the horizon.
When the extended edition came out on dvd, i watched the whole trilogy at least once a year
Iron Man. Two or three times, depending if you count when they fucked up the reel and restarted it over partway in.
Multiple cinema tickets for the same film? What am I, made of money?
Matrix. I think I’ve watched it over 30times
Over 30 times in a cinema or overall?
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…
