Personally, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I knew it was going to be quite the experience before I went for the first time‡ but it was so much fun I had to keep going back bringing friends each time.
It’s still a fun tradition to do though we haven’t done it since last year, we’re probably going to try and go again in a few weeks.
‡ I had seen it many times before going to see it in theaters for the first time.
matrix I, skipped classes and watch it more than ten times in cinema.
Follow the white rabbit.
Man I remember the marketing campaign for that movie was incredible too.
The marketing was incredible because it leaned heavily into “What is the Matrix?” and didn’t spoil the plot. It made the movie itself amazing, because you had no idea what to expect.
I cringe just thinking about how that movie would be marketed today. The trailer would probably start off with all the action scenes voiced over by Morpheus explaining exactly what the Matrix was, followed by Agent Smith monologuing about how humans are a virus that needs to be wiped out.
Yes yes 1000 times yes. It was so incredible and there were so many great lines in the film talking about what the Matrix was without actually revealing the mystery. “The matrix is all around you” etc.
Absolute master class in building hype for a movie and as you say, puts modern marketing campaigns absolutely to shame. Although to be fair they did have solid gold to work with.
Avengers: Endgame
The buildup to this movie was basically the perfect storm. And boy did it deliver. I doubt Marvel will ever be this good again. And actually, the fact that their trying to make every movie now an “Avengers” movie is exactly the reason it’s going downhill, in my opinion. Feels like almost every recent Marvel movie (Black Panther 2, Ant-Man Quantumania, Black Widow), they all have to be huge wars with multiple superheroes coming in to save the day. They cant just make a smaller scale superhero movie anymore. There have been a few exceptions, like Shang-Chi, and that one was way better. Avengers Endgame was so amazing in theaters because it was made on a decade of buildup.
Same thing with the comics, imho. Besides being too expensive, every Marvel and DC comic seems to be part of some giant crossover event.
Bladerunner 2049. I saw it five or so times in IMAX.
At the time the release flew under my radar so I completely missed it in cinemas, if I could I would go at least twice.
Ohhh I’m so jealous. That’s my favorite movie and unfortunately I missed it when it was playing in cinemas. Such a gem and the soundtrack is amazing
I’m usually the first to complain about character driven movies, as opposed to story driven. Usually I despise the former category.
Somehow, blade runner 2049 is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. That’s how fucking good it is.
Inception. I saw it 4 times in theaters. Every time, I noticed new details. It was such a unique and original story, and it was executed incredibly well. I had never seen a movie where the score was so essential to the storytelling. It’s such a dense movie that despite being 2.5 hours, I don’t think I could cut 2 minutes out of it without really hurting the pacing or missing necessary moments. Inception is the reason I can understand and appreciate both filmmaking and the composition and arrangement of instrumental music.
Same here. But even after rewatching it so many times, I never realized that the iconic Inception BWAAAH is actually a super-slowed down version of the dream world cue song (Edith Piaf’s Non, je ne regrette rien). There’s a really neat analysis done by Rutgers’ Christopher Doll, which explains how Zimmer uses the slowed down motif to signal which dreamscape we are in as the viewer while watching the movie. Link here.
That’s exactly what I meant when I said that the score is essential. And it’s super fucking cool that the orchestra includes an electric guitar and an electric cello. As much as I love the score for Interstellar, I don’t know if Inception’s score even can be topped! Star Wars is the only thing that comes close imho.
Dune is the only movie I willingly rewatched at the cinema. Looking forward to the second part.
Matrix. I think I’ve watched it over 30times
That best my top movie. Which is also Matrix, but I only saw it 3 times in the theater.
Cinema around 12 times (best friend was a Cinema manager back then), the rest at home. Occasionally I throw in the Blu-ray and watch it from time to time…
Over 30 times in a cinema or overall?
Star Wars.
Watched the matinee every day for a week when it first came to our local cinema.
The Matrix. I saw it at least four times in the theater.
The first Spiderverse. Saw it with the girlfriend then again with a buddy. I maintain that these are the best movies ever made.
Barbie. The details in the background of the movie (side comments, set, clothes etc.) capture the female experience better than anything else I’ve seen.
I skipped school (and got away with it) to watch lotr:2towers 3 times in one day at the theater
When I was a kid, Nightmare Before Christmas. Must’ve convinced my parents to take me to see it at least eight times. I’ve watched it at least once every year since then, and it stayed my favorite movie for most of my life, until Everything Everywhere All at Once finally usurped it almost 30 years later. Saw that in theaters four times.
Oh, and Lord of the Rings. Saw all three in theaters at least three times each. And, for some reason, Superbad. Went to five showings of that.
Odd, Superbad is the only movie I’ve ever seen twice (or more) in the theaters.
I saw it and thought it was the funniest movie I’d ever seen, then a couple weeks later my buddy wanted to see a movie so I saw it a second time with him. No regrets.
I went to see the original Avatar movie 3 times. First time I unknowingly watched it in 2D. Then I thought “this would be amazing in 3D”. Then I saw it in 3D and it was so fantastic that, a few weeks later, I watched in 3D again. No regerts.
Hey, came here to say the same thing. Watched it once in 2D and two times more in 3D. Awesome experience!
I wish 3D had stuck around long enough to get a 4k HDR 3D release of it. Ah well, maybe 3D movies will come back again in another 20 years with higher framerates and better displays.
Ain’t gonna happen because there is no such thing as 4K 3D in Home Cinema terms, because unfortunately 4K UHD Blu-ray’s don’t even support 3D. It’s not in the spec. But yeah, I hope 3D will come back in a few years with much better specs.
I actually walked out of Schindlers List and bough a ticket for the very next screening.
Bleak as hell but I’d never seen a film that locked me in the way that film did.
Why did you walk out? Did you not want to see the ending the first time?
I thought it would build anticipation.
Original Star Wars as a kid. The whole summer. 13 times. Have probably watched it more times since on streaming.
Nostalgia is a drug.
Saw Star Wars 26 times in the theater
We all paid for George Lucas’s second swimming pool that summer…
Shit, you got 1 more time than I did!
Back when they didn’t kick you out of the theater between showings; it was the only thing I asked my mom for money for that summer, as I recall.
Do you also feel like Lucas’ recut is a blaspheme?
I just look away during the Jabba scenes and the Han/Greedo shootout.
