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Movies You’ve Watched at Least 7 Times
There’s a viral deal going around TwiXter that asks, “using a GIF, show a movie you’ve seen at least seven times.” I, of course, chose the greatest film in cinematic history, but it made me wonder what other films I’ve seen that many times. I don’t have an exact view count on any of these, but know I watched them over and over and over.
Here’s what I came up with, in rough order of when they came out:
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Empire Strikes Back
- Flash Gordon
- Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- The Thing
- Trading Places
- Blade Runner
- Spinal Tap
- Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Real Genius
- Back to the Future
- After Hours
- Aliens
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Raising Arizona
- Beetlejuice
- Tombstone
- Wings of Desire
- Pulp Fiction
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Office Space
- A Bug’s Life
- The Incredibles
Not a lot of Great Cinema here. Mostly comedies, midnight movies, films rerun on cable, and the last two I rewatched with my kids.
How about you?
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First thing that pops into mind is Iron Eagle.
Casablanca. Can’t count the number of times I have seen it.
There are a number I have seen a bunch, just not always all the way through at once because I caught them on TV and stopped. Most of these are all the way through.
Casablanca (The true greatest film)
The In Laws (Original)
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Trading Places
Monty Python and the Holy Grain
The Longest Day
Big Trouble in Little China
All of Connery and Moore James Bond Movies
Tomorrow Never Dies
Conan the Barbarian
Star Trek 4
Beverly Hills Cop (I and II)
The Mark of Zorro
Running Scared
Freebie and The Bean
Animal House
Back to School
Down Periscope
Where Eagles Dare
Force 10 from Navarone
The Great Escape
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Oceans 11
Clue
The Secret of my Success
Iron Man
The Avengers (first one)
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Right Stuff
The Seven Samurai
Patton
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Kelly’s Heroes
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
The Eagle Has Landed
The Lion in Winter
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Fellowship of the Ring
Casablanca
Spaceballs
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Blazing Saddles
Dr Strangelove
Tunes of Glory
No doubt many more, but I’ll stop now.
There’s a few on that list that should specify which one.
Fletch
Ghostbusters
The Burbs
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clay Pigeons (A favorite that nobody knows of)
Sweet Home Alabama (Must see the dog jump off the dock scene)
Gladiator
3:10 to Yuma
Hell or High Water
The Big Short
Days of Thunder
Cars
The Proposal
The only film I saw 7 times in a theater is Fidler on the Roof.
Currently free (with skippable ads) on YouTube, if anyone’s interested.
Might be others from the list too, but GB I’m sure of.
And also . . .
Star Trek II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
What’s Up Doc
The Fellowship of the Ring
White Christmas
. . .
You know, I don’t know how many I’ve seen seven or more times. These for sure. But I’ll bet there are a lot I’ve seen four or five times.
Also currently free on YT. “Robin Hood” and “Lion” were last month, but not any more.
I was one of those geeks who saw the original Star Wars a double-digit number of times in the theater (long before you could see it any other way).
There are a few other movies that I find are infinitely rewatchable, the sorts of films that I will get sucked into anytime I happen to run across them. Jaws, Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, That Thing You Do!, Tremors, and Groundhog Day come immediately to mind, but there are others. The Andromeda Strain is also a favorite of mine, probably because I grew up with it (it was one of the few good science-fiction movies around in the early ’70s).
That’s not even counting all of the Disney and Pixar films that were on nonstop repeat play when my daughter was little. (My lifetime count for Lilo & Stitch probably comes closer to 70 than 7.) Not to mention the whole list of Christmas movies that we watch every year. It would seem like cheating to list those.
Clearly, I’m not willing to put in as much work on a list as some. Thing is, it would go to hundreds of movies, including a few that I’ve seen over a hundred times.*
I have a large DVD collection (~1500 movies, ~150 seasons of TV), and I’ve seen almost all of them more than once, most more than twice. I had seen 95% of them before I bought them; I bought them because I already knew I liked them.
* This includes things like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which I used to put on for background music when working at home. The music is almost non-stop in that one. Plus, I know every frame of it, so I know just when to look up. You know what I’m talking about.
The Third Man would be at the top of my list.
For me, the most watched are Christmas movies:
* Christmas Vacation
* It’s a Wonderful Life
* Holiday Inn
* Die Hard
Oh, and I’ll mention it here too, The Pentagon Wars is also currently free on YT!
Currently free on YT.
Same. But only seven times. I was eleven. It was life-changing.
Kelsey Grammer is outstanding in that.
“Let him take it for a test-drive, see if he can parallel park the [CoC]!”
I’ve watched a few more than once, but none as many as seven times.
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Kiss Me Deadly
Wolfen
Heartbreak Ridge
Bull Durham
The Big Sleep
Edit: I forgot the documentary on the music scene at Muscle Shoals. Great if you haven’t seen it and are old enough to remember hearing those songs when they were first released.
Another good pick, in the 50 to 100 range, is the original Planet of the Apes movies. I can describe them all scene by scene if you like. It’ll take about seven hours.
Same with me. Anyway, Time Bandits.
“Local Hero” & “High Noon” are the two movies I’ve watched the most times, but long before I met my wife I took a date to see the musical “Grease” 6 dates in a row. She broke up with me when I declined to take her the 7th time.
My girlfriend at the time and I went to Fiddler 7 times. Our breakup had nothing to do with the film.
The Godfather
Ben Hur
The Dirty Dozen
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lion In Winter
A Man For All Seasons
Its A Wonderful Life
Fiddler On The Roof
The President’s Analyst
Spartacus
The Hunt For Red October
On The Waterfront
West Side Story
Blazing Saddles
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Little Big Man
Rain Man
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Castaway
Shakespeare in Love
12 O’clock High
Stalag 17
Tom Jones
The Sting
Goldfinger
Animal House
Batman Begins
Dragnet
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Princess Bride
and many others 😊
Off the top of my head, no particular order:
The Blues Brothers
Breaker Morant
The Club
48HRS
The Maltese Falcon (1941 version)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Kids Are Alright (1979 “rockumentary” on The Who, not 2010 film)
The Last Waltz
Caddyshack
Stripes
Office Space
Casablanca
Key Largo
To Have and Have Not
Life of Brian
I’ll stop now.
Oh I must have seen Its a Wonderful Life at least 7 times!
Just not in one sitting, each.
In no particular order (as I don’t know when a lot came out…)
Casablanca
Wrath of Khan
Blade Runner
Lion in Winter
Dr. Zhivago
The Matrix
Office Space
The Shining
Patton
Full Metal Jacket
Spinal Tap
Princess Bride
Dune 1984
Maybes:
Hunt for Red October
Braveheart
The Thing
Tombstone
…
I’m sure there are more.
Either we have a dearth of parents under the age of 50 here, or you’re all
very forgetfulpurposely blocking them out.A Bugs Life
Cars
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc
Shrek
Etc, etc, etc…