What films have you seen the most in the cinema - especially first run?

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Star Wars in 1977, and Platoon in 1986.

Sort of another one... I can't remember the title, was only 3 years ago my wife and I were at a matinee. The movie was about half way through when the fire alarm went off and we were all shoo-ed out of the multiplex. There was a fire in the popcorn maker. No real damage but they shut everything down until next day. We went back to see the last half the next day. I think an hour after the fire was 'out' we could go back and get a ticket voucher for the next day if we had our ticket stubs (keep your ticket stubs kiddees), was kind of a pain.

I saw Jack the Giant Killer at least a dozen times in the theater. This was because a local third run joint ran it every few months as a matinee attraction and this was the only way to see it. For some reason, it did not play on TV until the 80s and that was in a drastically altered version. But I used to drag Harryhausen fans to see it because it does fit in with that type of film, indeed, it set out to imitate the first Sinbad film with two of the same actors and the same director.

I saw Clash of the Titans four times on the big screen because my son loved it and hey, I'm a Harryhausen fan. We also saw Star Wars perhaps four times - we had a local theater that carried it for over six months.

I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid four times but that was because after the first run, it often showed up as the bottom half of a double bill with a new Fox movie.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly got five viewings from me over the years, the last time in 2003 and i took my sons and daughter-in-law as they had never seen a Leone on the big screen.

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I still haven't seen Jack the Giant Killer; it's been on my list for years and I've seen a good chunk of the fantasy films from that period, just never have gotten around to it. Maybe I'll prioritize it now - heck I might have a copy, I should look, in the mood for that kind of thing now.

I think I saw Good, Bad, Ugly once or twice on the big screen, and the other two once each and also Once Upon a Time in the West once, probably all in the early 90s or so. One of my big regrets is never having seen Once Upon a Time in America in a theater; I'm sure it probably only showed for a week in the truncated version when new and in any case I missed it then and only saw it first on VHS around 1990. Pretty sure it showed at least once in Chicago in the 90s but for whatever reason I missed it. Sigh.



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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 7 times but that was over about 2 years as it went from city cinema to suburban cinemas to drive-in to school holidays double feature [with Hombre].

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4 times

Interstellar

3 times

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Avatar

And I intend to see La La Land a third time.

Three is the highest number of times I've seen the same film in the cinema for me, with the following all tied:

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - All revivals within this past decade. The number of times I see this will almost certainly go up eventually.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - All first run back in 2003-2004. Probably the one film that shaped (or rather, kick-started) my current obsession with cinema, so I owed it as many trips to the theater as I could bear to drag other people along with me. This could also go up as well, if there's ever a revival of the entire trilogy in the future.

The Witch (2015) - The most recent example, and not something I was planning on seeing so many times, even though I did love the film. First time was my intial viewing, second was when I meant to see Son of Saul but the screen wasn't co-operating for some reason and I decided to check this one out again, and the third was when I was visiting a friend who had heard me rave about the film and wanted to see it for themselves.

There's a few things still in theaters now that I've already seen twice which could conceivably join the ranks of these three, under the right circumstances (namely La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, and Split). Given our increasingly uncertain times, I could see repeated trips to the multiplex becoming more necessary than they have been in quite some time, so who knows what else could join the 'three times' club, or perhaps even higher?

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I have more new films that I'd like to see more times right now than I've had in several years; saw Paterson today and was just knocked out, and it's the kind of film that is just hugely enjoyable and has plenty to offer in repeat viewings (not the least staring at Golshifteh Farahani for two hours). But it's only playing an hour away and I doubt it will last more than a week. Might get to Moonlight again; wish Silence had stayed around longer, that one *needs* multiple viewings. Great, great year for film from my perspective.


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So I watched Jack last night, you inspired me. Pretty cool, and if I had been 12 when it came out I could have been obsessed with it. Yeah, very much the Harryhausen feel. The copy I saw seemed a little faded - did it have really bright Technicolor originally? And I thought the 1.66 aspect ratio was a little weird in an American film of that period, I thought by the 60s American studios had largely settled on 1.85

Stop-motion stuff was great, the rest of the effects - eh, average at best for that era. Loved Torin Thatcher, he does a great villain.


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