Movies you've seen many times repeatedly

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Blain

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Goodfellas - 1990
Cape Fear - 1962
Dracula - 1931
Raising Arizona - 1987
Notorious - 1946
To Kill a Mockingbird -1962
Christmas Vacation - 1989
The Godfather I & II - 1972, 1974
Double Indemnity - 1944
No Country for Old Men - 2007
Dog Day Afternoon - 1975
The Hustler - 1961
Casablanca - 1942
Training Day - 2001
Creature from the Black Lagoon - 1954
All the President's Men - 1976
Sling Blade - 1996
Ace in the Hole - 1951
 

TheSlamma

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Alien
Aliens
Predator
Road Warrior
John Carpenters The Thing
Empire Strikes back
Terminator 1 and 2
Shawshank
Band of Brothers series
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future 1
North by Northwest
 

sigurros81

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Most movies get old for me after a couple of viewings, except for Dumb and Dumber. That one never gets old.

Second would be black hawk down.
 

Chaotic42

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Hunt For Red October
Patton
The Great Escape

I got a sunburn so bad that I was laid up for a week. We had no cable, so I just watched my DVDs over and over.
 

A Casual Fitz

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Highlander
Highlander 2: The Quickening
Highlander 3: The Final Dimension
Highlander: Endgame
Highlander: The Source
 

Howard

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Does "many times repeatedly" have a different meaning than either "many times" or "repeatedly" alone?
 

Arkaign

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I've probably watched at least half of Forrest Gump a few dozen times, along with 10 or so full viewings. It's eminently watchable.

The others I've seen more than a lot :

Fight Club
Terminator 2
Aliens
The Departed

That said, I am not super big on re-watching most films. Once is enough for 95% of movies I ever see.
 

TridenT

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That's hard to say... I don't generally rewatch movies.

Maybe Star Wars? Honestly, I don't know what else.

I've seen Swingers a few times though. It's one of my all time favorite movies. Probably seen it six to eight times. I do skip the repeated phone call scene when I can though. It's just too painful...
 

Skyclad1uhm1

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There's only a few movies I've watched more than 3 or 4 times, and I don't think there's any movie I've watched more than 5 times.

And most movies I watched more than once was a matter of it being on TV, me being too lazy to put on a DVD, there not being anything better on any channel, and me not feeling like gaming at that time. Especially if I've not seen it a few years I then sometimes rewatch a movie.

There's a few I've watched at least part of more than 3 times (the SW movie that starts on the ice planet for example, kept falling asleep a few mins in so it took a while before I finally watched all of it and then never needed to see it ever again), but usually a movie needs to be pretty good and I need to have not seen it for quite some time before I feel the need to watch it again.
 

angminas

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The only movies I have never tired of at all even after dozens of viewings are The Karate Kid, Star Trek II, and The Empire Strikes Back. I watched them so many times when I was a kid that now I consciously ration them out to make sure that I never get tired of them.

Next up with just a touch of hesitation are The Matrix (I think mostly due to the irritating DVD menu), Heat (mostly due to the length), Princess Mononoke (unnecessarily gruesome), Master and Commander (achingly slow part in the middle), Star Trek 4 (I never want to start watching it, but love it once it's on) and the LOTR movies (due to the foolish changes to add unnecessary whining and drama).

The only TV series I've devoured as quickly as I could get my hands on them (since the introduction of putting entire series on DVDs) are Nurse Jackie and Daria. Next up are The Simpsons and Battlestar Galactica (new one).
 

JujuFish

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I can understand people watching movies again years later. What I don't understand is when people watch the same movie several times over just a few days, like seeing a movie multiple times in a movie theater.
 

Murloc

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I looked at a van damme movie twice because I didn't remember having seen it, also another one too (it was about this prisoner who is innocent and then he meets a US marshal and they go and save the situation or something).
Also the riddick movie (not the one of this year).
It bothers me when I get half-way through and I remember what's going to happen.
 

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I can understand people watching movies again years later. What I don't understand is when people watch the same movie several times over just a few days, like seeing a movie multiple times in a movie theater.

We used to do movie nights in college (and on betamax). The video rental store had less than 200 different movies that you could rent - it was awesome! They would give you a list of all the movies - two columns, one side of a piece of paper. Every weekend though, the final movie of the night would be Monty Python & The Holy Grail. We had "cable," but back then, most of the stations signed off for the night around midnight. And cable was about 12 channels, quickly rising to almost 25 channels over just a couple years.

So, Monty Python and the Holy Grail - haven't watched it in a long time though
Princess Bride
for some reason, if I see it on television, Groundhog Day
and there are a lot of movies I've seen 2 or 3 times out of boredom, but I no longer even have a DVD player or VHS player attached to the only television in the house.
 

dawp

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monty python and the holy grail
12 monkeys
akira
star wars(original 3)
the song remains the same(led zeppelin)
pat benatar concert dvd
heavy metal I & II
light years
and some others already listed

also Rocky Horror Picture Show(let's do the time warp again), of course it's completely different to see this in a theater than at home on dvd.

I can watch any of Hayao Miyazaki's movies multiple times( too bad he just retired)
 
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