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What movie have you rewatched the most?

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Lord of the Rings.
- "The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. "
  Queue the goosebumps, we're in for a hell of a ride.
- That one is probably up there for me when it comes to total watch time (and we combine all 3 movies).
  I've seen all 3 in the theatric release initially and after that I've watched through the extended editions 2 times. That's like 30h+ at least.
  
  Same, except I snatched up both the theater and extended the minute they came out and have watched through them all numerous times. As well as now watched a lot of reaction videos for them, which I guess counts too. It's fun to reexperience the first time through someone else's eyes.
  
  I rewatch The Hobbit trilogy and LOTR (both extended) every year with my wife. I would prefer just watching a fan cut of the hobbit as I don't think those are very good, but my wife likes them and a happy wife is a happy life.
  So I think I have seen LOTR at least 8 or 9 times and hobbit maybe 4 times.
  That still doesn't come close to a Swanlake cartoon movie that I obsessively watched 4 times a day when I was around 5 or 6. My parents insist I must have watched it well over 100 times.

The Princess Bride. It's such a fun adventure that still holds up really well today.
- INCONCEIVABLE!
  
  That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
- I still need to watch this, thank you for reminding me.

Spaceballs, Ghostbusters (original), LotR, Labyrinth, The Holy Grail…
- Ghostbusters for me too. Never gets old :-)
- Ghostbusters is probably the single movie I can quote from one end to the other.
  That and maybe Robocop.
  
  Where do those stairs go?
  They go up.

Another entry for me would be "Robin Hood (1973)". I haven't rewatched it in a long time, but as kids we (my brother and me) wanted to watch that movie over and over again. I've seen it more than ten times at least.
- Oooodelolly!
  
  Everybody do the Hamster Dance!

The Matrix. No other movie is even close
- Yup. Insane movie.
  Crazy how dog shit all the movies after the first are, though.

Probably Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation since it has been tradition every holiday season.
As a kid, Rescuer's Down Under or The Paper Brigade was re-watched a lot.
Apart from that, it's a close tie for:
The Matrix
Sin City
The Chronicles of Riddick
Terminator 2
The Sandlot
I, Robot
Joe Dirt
Just good replay value.
- The Sandlot is such a great film. Even my daughter who doesn't know anything about baseball loves watching it with me. There is no other movie that gives me the same feelings as that. There is no major drama or traumatic incidents. Just kids having fun over the summer.
  You know nowadays they would have made the stepdad an alcoholic or animal control would have come and taken Hercules away after they found out he was nice, or some other kind of drama like that. But this movie doesn't do any of that. It's just a fun story about a bunch of kids being kids.

Office Space. The Usual Suspects used to be on TV all the time back in the day and is probably a close second.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail or The Fifth Element.

Airplane!
- Didn't expect to see that one here, but good choice

The Big Lebowski
- You want a toe? I can get ya a toe. Believe me, there are ways dude, you don’t even wanna know about ‘em, believe me. Hell, I can get ya a toe by three o’clock this afternoon, with nail polish.

Monty Python's The Holy Grail

Hackers
- Hack the planet!!
- Yo. Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem!
- WOOHOO! BOOM

Home Alone. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I don't really rewatch movies anymore. There is so much content out there that I haven't watched, I would rather see something new than just rewatch something that I've already seen.

Groundhog Day
- It's my goto movie to put on when I'm sick. Can pass in and out of consciousness and you still kinda know what's going on.

Top Gun. With all combinations of subtitles and dubs available.
Don't ask.
- No, now I'm curious.
  I mean, I lived through the 80s too, no judgment here, just are the subs and dubs that interesting?
  
  This was in 2004 or so. And no, they're not.

I have seen Kung Pow: Enter the Fist over a hundred times easily
- Chosen one!
  
  IM COMING
- Every time I drive by a Taco Bell I have to sing, "Taco Bell, Taco Bell, product placement with Taco Bell."
  My kids think I'm insane.

As a child: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
As a university student: Heat, Léon, 2001
As an adult, before kids: Sicario, Brick
As an adult, after kids: Cars
What I wish my answer was: Koyaanisqatsi
- you might love Baraka
  
  I DO love Baraka. One day, I'll get to see a 70mm print of it.
- KOYAAAAAAA
  NISQATSIIIIIIIII

I have a few that will be very close as I decided a bit over a decade ago to limit myself to one rewatch a year of each to stop myself sucking all the joy out of them:
Alien - my favorite survival horror
Aliens - my favorite Nam movie
Jaws - my favorite version of Moby Dick, although I really like Godzilla Minus One take on Jaws
Jurassic Park - best big stompy monster film for me
Lord of the Rings - this is always over Christmas. Its not faithful enough for me to the books but it still manages to be an outstanding Trilogy.
Emperors New Groove - favorite body swap film

The Other Guys. At first glance, it's a buddy cop comedy that harkens back to Lethal Weapon, but with humor typical to ~2010. But, the more you watch it, the more Zucker brothers esque, 1980s surrealist comedy influences you notice. One of the most subtly weird and funny movies to me, I've probably seen it, no lie, 10 or 15 times.

It's been a while... but the most I have watched is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Still know all the songs by heart :)

Nobody has said Die Hard?!?
See it here on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee:
https://lemmy.world/post/18064570

The Shawshank Redemption.

Liar, Liar
Office Space
Happy Gilmore
The Fifth Element
Ace Ventura 2
Nat. Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
The Big Lebowski

It's a little embarrassing, but I think it's Scary Movie (all of them, but especially the first one)
- It's Scary Movie 2 that really tickles me with its good hand.
  
  I remember thinking 2 was so good in high school but watched it again much later and it just didn't do it for me anymore. NATM on the other hand held up great.

Not completely by my own choice, but I feel like I've seen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - at least in part - once or more per holiday season since it was released.
The same is true of Elf, but obviously that movie is quite a bit more recent.
For movies I've watched the most by my own choice, it's probably the Kill Bills or Inglorious Basterds, but those have got to be way behind in raw count. Goonies and the Back to the Future series probably have honorable mentions because of how long they've been around and continue to be a fun watch.
- Good call! I'm not big on rewatching movies, but I definitely see Christmas Story, Elf, and Christmas Vacation every year, so I've probably seen A Christmas Story more than any other movie in the past 40 years.
  Runner up might be having Disney's Robin Hood on repeat when I was about 6. Oooda-lolly!
- Shit, I was gonna say three way tie between Spirited Away, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and 21 Jump Street, but if I count what I've watched at school then National Treasure wins lol

Probably "The Man from Earth". Just such a good and well told story.
- I loved that movie. DON'T watch the sequel. Don't do it.
  
  It's too late for me, but I wholeheartedly agree.
- You've been on the internet for a while, yeah?
  
  Are you trying to say I'm old?

The Big Lebowski
- Everyone goes through a Big Lebowski phase where they can quote the entire movie living off dubies and white russians.
  
  That's just like, your opinion, man

Kung Fury. It's a short film, so maybe that's cheating. Regardless, I love the writing. It's the perfect blend of absurdity and over the top action. It's a Swedish made film that's a satire of 80's cop and Kung fu movies. Free to watch on YouTube.
- Sounds cool, I'll have to watch this the next time we have seen absurd movie night.

Clue
- This is the correct answer

Not sure but these are on repeat at my house:
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Hot Fuzz
Into the Spiderverse
Pride and Prejudice, the one with Keira Knightly
So one of them but not sure which.

I think Lotr movies.

Spirited away... Something about the first opening notes of the piano when that movie starts always moves me and fills me with such warm feelings.
Honestly most studio Ghibli movies I've watched a lot... But man... Spirited away does something to me.

It's probably Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead or Wayne's World those were on replay for much of my childhood into my teens.
- Dishes are done, man.
  Glad to find another Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead watcher.

Strangely enough Shawshank Redemption
- TNT used to be a non-stop Shawshank Redemption loop.
  
  Yep you nailed it. And flipping through the channels we could never seem to not stop on it, hence the reason we’ve probably watched the ending maybe 50-60 times usually starting at random places.

Jurassic Park and it isn't even close
- Also JP, but with Jaws as a close second

The Blues Brothers
- Same. Growing up anytime I saw it on TV (which was often on TBS in the 90s) I watched it. I got my first DVD player in 2000 and that was one of the first DVDs I bought. I've watched it at least twice a year since then. So chances are I've seen it close to 100 times.

Gotta be a tie between Milo and Otis and the og spongebob movie
- "Gonna take a walk outside today…"
- When I was a kid Milo and Otis would've been the answer.

Firefly

Fight Club, but I can't talk about it.
- You already broke the first two rules.
- I watched this movie and read the book so many times I either made up a scene in my head or it was cut between theater and video release. I remember a scene where Tyler tells everyone to take a page of the phone book go buy a gun report it stolen and trade with the person next to you. Maybe I should check for a director's cut.

Joe Versus The Volcano (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/) is my all time re-watch movie. So many themes, great cinematography, and very mythic.
If you've never seen it, your in for a treat!
- I KNOW he can get the job. But can he DO the job?
  I’m not arguing that with you!

Napoleon Dynamite, loved that movie in High school and it's been a comfort movie ever since. Funny and easily quotable, it's a staple in my house.
- Just imagine you're weightless, in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by tiny little seahorses.

Princess Bride
Muppet Christmas Carol
Lord of the Rings
The Beauty and the Beast
The Sword in the Stone
Dumb and Dumber
Young Frankenstein
Nightmare Before Christmas

grammas boy
back to the future (all of them)
Ace ventura
the mask
good will hunting
Beetlejuice
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Seven/ Se7en I know most of it's dialogue by heart. Went to see it at the theater when it premiered and stayed to watch it three more times, it blew my mind! I had never seen anything like it. It is my favorite movie of all time.
- My partner rewatches that as like a comfort movie. I always found it so dark and hopeless and disconcerting. It really felt like a vision of hell when I first saw it.
  Although I've caught parts of it while she's watching so often that I've become a bit desensitized, so I can appreciate it for it's merits more. It is a great movie.
  
  Aw you seem like a supportive partner❤️ I think me and her would get along just dandy. Weird women unite!

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Saw this one so many times when I was younger

Star Wars
The Matrix
Kill Bill
Probably my top 3. Airplane!

saving private ryan, just such a good movie. and a Christmas story every year

Hook. Forrest Gump.

Usual Suspects.

WALL-E

Airplane! And Star Trek the Wrath of Khan.

Your Name / 君の名は
I use it for language learning, watching things repeatedly is very useful for picking up on new words and grammar!
- Such a good movie. I don't follow anime much but my friend took me to see it when it was in theatres without telling me anything about it. So happy to have experienced it like that.
  
  It was especially poignant for me because so much of the boy-girl bodyswap stuff was very trans coded.

Maybe Lawrence of Arabia or Tora Tora Tora!.
EDIT: The Back to the Future trilogy and the original three Star Wars movies are probably up there too.

The Star Wars OT. Probably ROTJ specifically. That was like an every weekend thing when I was a kid.

Lost in Translation
- I never really got that movie. What about it brings you back to seeing it over and over again?
  
  It makes me feel like I'm in Japan, and fills me with a really wonderful loneliness and awe. I feel like the movie is a fairly accurate representation of the experience of being a Western foreigner in Japan, and I love everything about that feeling.
  And I also enjoy the unconventional romance story, as well.

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