The movie I've most watched in the theater is probably
Grease,
which I saw 5 times when it first came out (between friends and babysitting and the fact that we only had one local theater). Although
Willy Wonka
played there every year for awhile so that might be a close second.
Movies I've watched most on TV/DVD:
Caddyshack, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Thin Man, Heathers, High Society, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz.
Growing up before VCRs, I really racked up viewings of things that showed ritually on TV every year.
A discussion on another board reminded me of "The Music Man." I've watched that a lot. Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins -- movies my grandmother had on tape. And "Naughty Marietta."
I think I have to retroactively include the Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz to my list, as we watched them every year on the teevee.Although for a long time I had to go to bed before they were over. I went to bed when Dorothy arrived at the Emerald City, and when the Von Trapp children sang "SoLong, Farewell" and went to bed! I am not sure why this going to bed thing was so important!
The movie I've most watched in the theatre has to be
Rocky Horror
but
Harold and Maude
should have been in my original video top 5 and, now that I think about it, also
Excalibur
and (unfortunately)
Bachelor Party.
And possibly
Clockwork Orange
and
Caligula.
For movie most watched in the theater, I'd have to say it was the original Star Wars or possibly Grease.
I just saw
Brick
today and very much loved it. It's not for everyone but I highly recommend it to any fan of Film Noir especially the Hard Boiled Detective type.
Movies I will watch every single time they come on, anywhere:
The Breakfast Club, LotR(s), the Matrices, HHGttG, The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World (yes, I am that sort of person), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Sound of Music, Funny Face (Audrey Hepburn as bookish idealist turned model! Fred Astaire as freewheeling photographer in love! Awesome dance scene that got turned into not awesome commercial!), The King & I, Monty Python's Holy Grail, probably Life of Brian, too, Instinct, The Art of War.
I recently rewatched Harold & Maude, and I didn't think much of it. I can see how I used to love it, and why, but I just don't think I'm in the same headspace anymore. I wonder if I would feel the same way about Dead Poets.
This popped up recently on another board I frequent: [link] Enjoy!
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson to co-produce a series of Tintin films: [link]
I just saw Brick today and very much loved it.
I saw that movie a week or two ago, and I watched it with subtitles on just to make sure I actually heard all the lingo. (Interpreting it once you've heard it isn't so hard, but it can take me a while to hear the word properly.) It was like watching my first New Zealand movie (
Once Were Warriors
) all over again!
It was a cute movie, but I'm ready for Indie King Wossname of the Hyphens to play adult roles now.