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I feel safe to ballpark these within the minimum...
TRON: 30+
Raiders of the Lost Ark: 30+
A L I E N: 30+
Twice Upon a Time: 25+
Ghostbusters: 20+
Die Hard: 20+
Star Trek III: 30+
Star Trek II: 20+ (III seems to be my automatic go to)
Dune: 10-12
Akira: 10+
Elephant Man: 4 (trust me, it takes a circumstantial cardiovascular fortitude for me to watch it at all)
Lost count with the Star Wars saga around 300+ each film.
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Many of the titles mentioned above are ones I've also seen multiple times. But I'll bet there's another one most people have seen over and over again---
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Growing up it was on TV every year, plus I've seen it on TCM numerous times since.
I've only seen it twice. It's... not my cup o' tea. :shurgs:
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To keep it relatively simple, I’ve seen the following films 100+ times over the years:
The Shining
Psycho
Psycho II
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
All the Monty Python films
All the Mel Brooks films of the 70s
National Lampoon’s Vacation
The Nutty Professor ‘63
Caddyshack
Poltergeist
Jaws
Halloween ‘78
And with Home Alone I’m approaching 30 times since it’s the only Christmas film I consistently watch every year.
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PSYCHO II?
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All the Monty Python films
All the Mel Brooks films of the 70s
Mongo only pawn in game of life 
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There is quite a difference between pre-and post home video. Before it was possible to acquire one's own copy of a film, and we knew it could be the only or last chance to see a well liked film, then I would always watch any film that I considered myself a fan of over and again.
Anything that was released before I was old enough to catch it at a cinema, like the Universal and Hammer horror classics, not to mention anything sf/fantasy related would always be watched on tv. Likewise ANY Ray Harryhausen film, but some of those got rolled out on the cinema circuit as were Disney features. I never saw the b&w Harryhausens with the exception of Mighty Joe Young on tv as for some reason my ITV (UK commercial tv) region never showed them. 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts would get me in my local flea pit most days of the week they were showing.
So they were seen many times over the years. Then came Star Wars. Being blown away by that '77 release and Close Encounters I reckon they were seen at full price around NINE times. Superman the Movie possibly near that, with a little calming down by the time of Empire Strikes Back. In the eighties I'd say I would still go and see a film at least two or three times. And these were the days when we didn't get thrown out before the next showing so Blade Runner was seen round twice I remember very well. I just sat there mezmerised. Excalibur got to me so I think I saw that around six times.
Then came home video. I never ever bought a pre-recorded vhs, believing there would be a better and more compact format just around the corner. I always waited 'till films were on tv and recorded them, and if it was commercial tv I had to stay in to edit out the ads. But I'd say for some films there's a kiss of death aspect to owning. Knowing I can watch them any time there isn't quite the need to see it as often. The biggest exception here is the Sergio Leone western output. Lost count of the times I've seen the Dollars Trilogy.
Finally comedy. The Marx Brothers were seen over and over, as were Laurel and Hardy, and the latter remain an ongoing constant rewatch thanks to my membership of the Sons of the desert. Each and every month.
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Paul H: "I'd say for some films there's a kiss of death aspect to owning. Knowing I can watch them any time there isn't quite the need to see it as often."
Good point. In a funny way, video and its access to movies snatched away the magic of rare opportunity. Other than recording audio, before video there was no way of catching a film again unless it got another theatrical release. Which happened it only rare cases.
6 months now before tv gets a film, at one time it was 5, 6 or even 7 years before a film came on tv. Todays generations havent got a clue!!!
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I think I have to say that at the top are:
Jason and the Argonauts
7th Voyage of Sinbad
Bride of Frankenstein (I try to watch it every Halloween)
The Dollars Trilogy
Doctor Who and the Daleks
Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD
Star Wars ('77)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Excalibur
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
King Kong '33
All the Laurel and Hardy Hal Roach sound films on that previously mentioned ongoing basis.
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Of course, there are some movies I very much love which I have seen less often than some others for a variety of reasons. (Sometimes length or technical availability etc.) These days, I do far less repeat viewings of movies than I did 30 years ago.
I never counted how often I watched some of these movies, so I don't know which one I've seen the most (and this list is just top of my head and not comprehensive), but these here are movies I have seen particularly often, so often that I know them by heart. And these are also movies I would STILL watch again (and again).
HIGH NOON (1952 / Fred Zinnemann)
THE BIG COUNTRY (1958 / William Wyler)
PSYCHO (1960 / Alfred Hitchcock)
THE FLIM-FLAM MAN (1967 / Irvin Kershner)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968 / Sergio Leone)
PAPILLON (1973 / Franklin J. Schaffner)
CHINATOWN (1974 / Roman Polanski)
DUEL (1972 / Steven Spielberg)
JAWS (1975 / Steven Spielberg)
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976 / John Carpenter)
STAR WARS (1977 / George Lucas)
WIZARDS (1977 / Ralph Bakshi)
ALIEN (1979 / Ridley Scott)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980 / Irvin Kershner)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981 / Steven Spielberg)
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981 / John Carpenter)
FIRST BLOOD (1982 / Ted Kotcheff)
THE THING (1982 / John Carpenter)
BLADE RUNNER (1982 / Ridley Scott)
VIDEODROME (1983 / David Cronenberg)
THE DEAD ZONE (1983 / David Cronenberg)
BODY DOUBLE (1984 / Brian De Palma)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984 / Sergio Leone)
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992 / Francis Ford Coppola)
SE7EN (1995 / David Fincher)
AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999 / Sam Mendes)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004 / Zack Snyder)
I could list a few more.... not sure where to draw the line between "often" and "several times"... as I said, this is just a guess.
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Paul H: "I'd say for some films there's a kiss of death aspect to owning. Knowing I can watch them any time there isn't quite the need to see it as often."
The flip side of this would be a film recorded off TV and because it was one of the few movies one "owned", and would be re-watched countless times. My cousins had the likes of Ghostbusters, The Breakfast Club, and Top Gun on tape, so when I visited them, I would be exposed to those films by default. It cheapens the "movies I've seen" specialness.
Anyway, films I've *wanted* to see and have seen the most times, excluding Star Wars, Indy, Bond, and Woody Allen films:
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
El Dorado (1967)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Searchers (1956)
Thirteen Days (2000)
Tony Rome (1967)
Lady in Cement (1968)
Guide for the Married Man (1967)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
The Thin Man (1934)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Top Hat (1935)
In recent years, I have watched more "international" fare, but I no longer watch movies as frequently as I used to like I did when I was watching the above films.
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Ooh. A few coming up here like High Noon. But what I'm appreciating so far is that no one seems to have succumbed to that 'A New Hope' nonsense...
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This is of course a disguised question about what your favourite films are, but I'm curious about the numbers (if you can remember).
There are a number of films I've seen 20+ times, but I think the following films are in a class of their own, with at LEAST 60+ times each: ALIEN, ALIENS and JURASSIC PARK.
Favorite films, true enough, but other factors include one's age during which one is exposed to films and the subsequent availability of such films on home video.
There isn't any film or TV episode, I think, that I've watched more than 25 times, though a few come quite close. Not having kept a logbook throughout the years on my viewings, my 'guesstimation' about such follows:
25 viewings: Hour of the Wolf & The Silence
22: Persona
20: Woman in the Dunes
18: L'eclisse & Last Year at Marienbad
17: Onibaba
16: Seconds
15: The Trial ('62 Welles), Les Biches + Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
14: The Servant
12: Repulsion
11: Sweet Smell of Success
10: Belle de Jour
8: Stalker, La Belle Noiseuse & Bunny Lake is MIssing
6: 10:30 P.M. Summer
5: The Caretaker ('63 adaption of Pinter)
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In a theater....
The Connery.Bonds
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They used to periodically reissue.the in double features before they went to broadcast and.video
Non Bonds
THE FLINTS
GBU
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE
DUCK YOU SUCKER
THIN RED LINE
49TH PARALLEL
WOLFEN
WIND AND THE LIIN
LOST HORIZON
TOMMY
AMERICAN GRAFITTI
ENTER RHE DRAGON
THE GROUNDSTAR CONSPIRACY
KOYAANISQATSI
STAR WARS
THE PRODUCERS
FRENZY
BLADE RUNNER
SUPERMAN
RAIDERSOLA
THE DOORS
APOCALYPSE NOW
JURASSIC PARK
WOODSTOCK
KING KONG
CITIZEN KANE
ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
PATTON
FAHRENHEIT 451
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