What film did you go to the most upon release

What movie did you go to most often on its original theatrical run.


For me it was with out a doubt "Caddyshack" I don't know how many times I paid to see that one and I can't remember seeing any other film more than twice on its initial release in theatres.

 

I don't know why, apart from perhaps boredom, but I paid to see Monty Python's Meaning Of Life five times when it came out. Now, I love Monty Python, and I love most of their films, but this is one that over the years has gone flat for me. I didn't even bother with the new DVD version. Yet, I went back to see it over and over while it was out.

 

Around 1974, I went to the drive-in four nights in a row to see "Spirits of the Dead," a horror trilogy featuring Federico Fellini's psychedelic and hallucinatory "Toby Dammit" starring Terrence Stamp. The other two parts of the trilogy kinda sucked, tho.

When "A Hard Day's Night" first came out, we watched it, then stayed thru the second feature "The Slave, Son Of Spartucus" starring Steve Reeves, so we could see it again.

 

Like I said elsewhere, I saw "Finding Nemo" 7 times last summer and never got tired of it.

In high school some friends and I saw "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" at least 10 times, probably more, at the dollar theater. We went several times in a row during just one week. We had much of the dialog memorized but it's slipped my memory since then.

Dan C

 

I never go to movies twice anymore.

When I was a kid I saw Indiana Jones, Goonies, & Return Of the Jedi probably 4-5 a piece.

Back To The Future was probably 3 or 4

 

Woody Allen's "Bananas"-saw it 7 times including sitting through two showings the first time I saw it.

 

Honestly.....Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

My thirst for Star Wars was so great, that within the first two weeks of release, I saw this movie 4 times with various friends and relatives.
I'm just a huge Star Wars fan, plain and simple.

 

Actually, I just remembered that I saw "Mary Poppins" multiple times. I think my sister & I convinced every relative we knew to take us when we were kids.

 

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Saw it four times in theatres; countless more times on video since then.

 

Blade Runner too many times to admit. I was as fascinated by the words as I was by the visuals. Most underrated script in history, at least to me.

This, despite feeling that Harrison Ford was terribly miscast and some horrible edits.

 

The most ever is 4 times that I saw Bruce Lee in The Chinese Connection. Martial artist extraordinaire even in todays "fake martial artists" redundancy.

The Exorcist 3 times. It really opened the doors towards todays horror flicks, but somehow none have been able to match the story behind this one IMHO.

Star Wars twice. I just couldn't get enough of George Lucas's work in those days.

 

It was definitely Help!. A friend and I stayed in the theater in downtown Long Beach all day and watched it I think 5 times just that day. We went other times too but not for all day. Also Apocolypse Now a few times, Star Wars a couple and the first Star Trek a couple. When my kids were little we saw Little Mermaid several times too.

 

Both Fellowship Of The Ring and Two Towers - 4 times each, mainly because my son wanted to keep going (he would have gone 10 times if I let him). Also saw Help! at least 3, maybe 4 times, can't remember since it was so long ago. I've got a funny feeling I'll be seeing Return Of The King at least 4 times, maybe 5 since I'm sure my son wants to break his previous record.

Jeff

 

Phantom Menace and Pulp Fiction. 6 times each.

 

I saw "Dogma" three times.

 

Saw Fiding Nemo 4 times this past summer. But my record is Empire Strikes Back which I saw at least 7 or 8 times in a theater.

 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Saw it five times in its original release.
A lot of people said it was a weak film and maybe it was, but doggonit, seeing my "old friends" after a ten-year absence, seeing them on a BIG screen, and with movie-quality special effects blew me away. I saw it opening day (06 December 1979) and i've carried on that opening day tradition with every Star Trek film since...although they don't seem to be getting better.

 

Really? That was the same theater in which i saw Star Wars in the summer of 1977. Which showings?

 

I have seen Matrix in Seattle the first time... then 2x in our movies, and at least 5 times on DVD!!!

More than 3x Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner

 

"Monty Python And The Holy Grail", "The Matrix", and "Dogma"; I saw all three three times each upon initial release.

Evan

 

I think it was Who Framed Roger Rabbit or The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover. One of those.

No wait - maybe Peter's Friends or The Full Monty...