Movies you've seen many times repeatedly

PlanetJosh

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Whether at home or in a theater. And if it bothers you at all that you've seen them so many times if you have. Watching over half the movie again counts as a repeat view I'd say. Watching the whole thing each time would be the best but I haven't done that with most of my repeat viewings. Which is kind of wimpy, anyway my top 10 which may not be in any order are

1. Jurassic Park and the two sequels,
most of each of them over 70 times, all of each of them around 20 times.

2. Knight and Day, starring Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise,
most of it about 40 or 50 times, the whole movie about 8 times

3. Terminator 2
most of it about 50 times, the whole thing about 10 times

4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
most of all three about 40 times, all of all of them about 5 times

5. Enchanted, starring Amy Adams,
most of it about 40 times, all of it about 5 times.

6. The Phantom of the Opera, 2004, starring Emmy Rossum,
over half of it about 30 times, the whole thing about 5 times

7. First Blood, starring Sly Stallone, (first in the Rambo series)
most of it about 50 times, the whole thing about 10 times.

8. Avatar
most it about 70 times, the whole thing about 10 times

9. Indiana Jones series,
Most of the 1st & 2nd ones about 50 times each, all of both of them about 20 times I guess.

10. Men in Black series
Most of the 1st & 2nd ones about 30 times each, all of both about 20 times.

I wonder if it's a sign of anything troubling to watch my favorite parts of movies over and over. It's probably just a little entertainment. I may have understated the number of repeat views on some of them, not sure.

And one more thing if it makes any difference. I rarely watch any of them over again on a dvd or blue ray player. Watching them from a broadcast/cable/pay per view/streaming seem like more of a dynamic event because I know there are people behind the scenes who got them to function properly and possibly monitoring their status.

Edit 1: Dang forgot 3 more, so now it's a top 10 list\

Edit 2, Edit 3 and more Edits: Ah forgot about Galaxy Quest and The Fifth Element from reading the replies. And oh lord forgot all about Scary Movie 4, Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Groundhog Day, Coming To America, Trading Places, Bewitched (with Nicole Kidman), Land Of The Lost (Will Ferrell), Meet The Spartans, The Hot Chick, Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon..Uh oh some more I've seen many times over (and again that's most of the movie watched on repeat views) that I neglected to list are True Lies, Air Force One, War of the Worlds (2005), Apocalypto, Clear and Present Danger, The Time Machine, Apocalypse Now, and all of the Die Hard series except the fifth one...Now the post is out of control, I forgot about Contact, Dances With Wolves, Broken Trail, Jumanji, Waterworld, and 2012. Also cleaned up this post somewhat by removing sequels that I listed as seeing only 3 or 4 times.
 
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Geosurface

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I've watched The Lord of the Rings films too many times.

I remember I watched Fellowship like 15 times in theaters. It ended up in a situation where my brain ceased to be able to even process those films. Like, I literally cannot watch them anymore... it's like I'm staring at a blank TV almost. It's just background noise to me, no meaning or significance.

Which is sad because I love them.

I watched Phantom Menace an inordinate number of times in the theater, and that movie certainly didn't deserve it...

I'm wondering if I might be nearing the point where I could actually watch LOTR again and absorb it as an actual film experience again. It's been years since the last time I saw it.

I thought 15 or 20 times was absurd, and those are the only movies I can think of I've watched that many times... the next up for me would probably be like, Shawshank at maybe... 6 times? The Edge at maybe 4 times... Fifth Element 4 times.. stuff like that.

I come in here and see you talking 40, 50, 70 times? All I can say is holy shit.
 

KidNiki1

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movies that i have watched more than 10 times that i know. for me, that's a lot.

serenity

dune

star wars

the fifth element

the thing

blade runner

the princess bride

alien

raising arizona

tremors

there are a whoooooole lot of movies i have seen 3-5 times. but other than mayyybe fifth element and dune, i cant think of any i have watched more than, say, 20 times.
 

lxskllr

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Gone With The Wind and Wizard of OZ because they were always on TV when I was growing up. Otherwise, twice is about the max for seeing movies. Over a lifetime, I could imagine voluntarily watching a movie four or five times.
 

Agent11

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Dune

Eraserhead

5th Element

Highlander

Zulu!

Hidden Fortress

Ran

Seven Samurai

A Fistful of Dollars

For a Few Dollars More

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Dirty Dozen

Full Metal Jacket

Dr Strangelove

2001, 2010 space odyssey's

Kelly's Heroes

A Bridge Too Far

The Man Who Would be King

Destination Tokyo

Operation Petticoat
 
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pyonir

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Movies I've watched repeatedly (for me probably 15-20+ times):

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Big Lebowski
Layer Cake
Chasing Amy

I'm sure there are a few more but can't think of them right now.

I've been through all 7 seasons of Dexter available on DVD probably 5-8 times and same with the Band of Brothers set.
 

Jeff7

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Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended edition, of course)

Little Shop of Horrors

Hoodwinked
 

Brigandier

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Star Wars
Jeremiah Johnson
True Grit(remake)
Open Range
My Cousin Vinny
Rocky(1-4)
Karate Kid(original)
Pitch Black
 

Engineer

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Shawshank Redemption

Count of Monte Cristo

The Matrix

Troy

Hunt for Red October

Conan the Barbarian

Hidalgo

Terminator (most of them)

A Few Good Men

Full Metal Jacket

The Dirty Dozen

Probably a few more.....
 

Patranus

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Die Hard.
Watch it every Christmas as it is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.
 

T9D

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Good lord man. Have memory issues or something?

I remember them to well and get sick of them to fast to watch more than a few times. I guess that's why I get less enthusiastic about things than others. It's like they can keep doing the same thing over and over and over and get excited about it each time

I like The Burbs though. Funny movie.
 

thedarkwolf

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I only watch the highest quality movies over and over you know movies like

The Evil Dead 1, 2, and Army of Darkness

Mad Max and Road Warrior 2nd more than the first

I've also seen some lessor movies like LOTR a bunch but since it is on 5 times a day every day it is hard not to have seen it a bunch.
 

dingster1

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Another for Gone With The Wind andWizard of Oz. also North and South and Blue and the Grey. Love good Civil War movies!
 

effowe

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The Airplanes
The Naked Guns
Most Mel Brooks movies

If any of these come on TV I'll sit and watch the whole thing, never gets old.
 

twinrider1

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The Big Lebowski. Sometimes I'll just have it on as background sound. It's almost meditative.

Other movies I don't seek out, but if I surf across them I put the remote down...

Anything Clint Eastwood.
Band Of Brothers.
Big Trouble In Little China.
Used Cars.
 

Schmide

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RepoMan (1984)
The Chronicles of Riddick
Princess Bride

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Army of Darkness
Raising Arizona
Snatch
 
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