Which film have you paid to watch at the cinema more than once?

Star Wars The phantom menace.

The original Star Wars was the the only one I could remember paying to see more than once. But that was wayyy back in the 70s when it was first released.

No way I could do that today, since I only go to movies now that my grandkids want to see. The last one was the recent live action Jungle Book, and between tickets, candy, popcorn, and sodas the damn outing cost me 80 dollars. If I ever do that again, I’ll be asking random strangers in in the parking lot to just shoot me.

@NomoreY_A, I go to the cinema a lot, but it’s not a cheap outing for parents/grandparents with kids. Not sure how much tickets cost where you are, but here, at one of our largest chain cinemas, a standard adult ticket is AU$18.00. There are cheaper cinemas, but unless you sign up as a member, you’re going to be looking at about AU$12 per person.

none.
there exists not a single movie that would be worth that.

A good argument for just waiting until they come out on DVD or blu ray and rent the damn thing. Hell, you could buy two or three movies, and microwave popcorn and a cheap BluRay player, for less money than you shell out for one movie today.

The only movie that my wife and I ever paid full price to see twice was ‘The Sixth Sense’, back in 1999. It is also the only movie (and we’ve gone to A LOT of them since we met in 1967) that we discussed in the car all the way home, then CONTINUED discussing the following morning.

A few weeks later we went to see it again, just to appreciate the genius of how we were tricked, and the many scenes where we just assumed the facts regarding what we were watching…...

Back in the early 70’s, The Sting. I’m not sure if I actually paid for the later showings. I think I just stayed in my seat for three more showings. You could do that in those days in my town.

I know my sister went to see The Sound of Music multiple times (no idea why). I think a lot of people did.

Raiders of the lost ark, was the only movie I paid to watch a few times the cinema.

Way back: Elvira Madigan (1967). I was young, and it was desperately romantic and cinematically gorgeous (and enhanced by a Mozart soundtrack). And home video was decades away in the unimagined future. I saw it about six times, and, I confess, with more than one boyfriend. No romance of mine would ever rate that kind of treatment; few of us ever get to have love stories that would be worth making a movie about.

Much more recently: Being John Malkovitch (1999), which I just had to make sure a friend saw after I first saw it. The restaurant scene made me laugh so helplessly and almost hysterically that, the second time around, I was in spasms even before the scene began.

I think I did also go twice to the third LOTR movie with my son.

A few others over the years, mostly in re-release long after I’d seen them in their first theatrical run; for instance, the original Lord of the Flies (1963).

Nothing lately. I seldom go to the movies any more, but I do see a lot of things on DVD as soon as they come out on Netflix. I still prefer DVD to streaming and regret that Netflix is dropping so many great movies from its physical inventory.

Is there anything I would pay now to see another time in a movie theater? Maybe, but it would probably be at some kind of a classics film festival (as, for instance, a Hitchcock or Kurosawa retrospective) and not a regular commercial cinema.

Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Avatar
Star Trek (2009)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Paddington
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Zootopia
Beauty and the Beast (2017)

When I was a kid we went to the movies for the experience of going to the movies. Plus they were cheap and had double features. I’ve seen quite a few movies more than once at the theater.

As an adult, I saw The Crow a few times. I had nothing to do all day and matinees were cheap. I saw The Matrix twice. I went with my boyfriend and then my friends. Also, Speed. Why? Because Keanu Reeves.

“Peter Pan” in the 1950’s !

My dad paid or two of the four times, we went as a family for the two times.

I think I’ve watched The Big Sleep (1946) probably forty times in the last thirty years. I can’t get enough of it. Everytime I view it, I see something new, some new code word or phrase for something considered unspeakable back in the day.

Example: The flirtacious Horse Conversation between Bogart and Bacall is hilariously obscene. It had to be written this way in order to get past the on-set censors. LOL. It got through because the censors didn’t get it at all. People were so charmingly naive in those days.

When they heard that Howard Hawks was going to make a film based on a Raymond Chandler detective novel, considered one step above pornography, the censors insisted on being on set during filming, nearly driving screenwriter and famous novelist William Faulkner and the cast out of their minds with daily rewrites. Chandler even showed up to help Faulkner with it to protect his story from being totally ruined and unrecognizable. And it is a great, complicated, detective story that demands more than one viewing to understand because it was cut up so badly that not many people understood who actually murdered the chauffeur.

You can’t beat the pedigree: Howard Hawks directing. Screenplay and dialogue by Faulkner and Chandler. Bogart & Bacall. An extremely sexy young engenue, Martha Vickers, right out of the gate, playing naughty seventeen year-old Carmen Sternwood. Her scenes were so captivating that they had to cut them down to not take away from star Bacall.

A pretty young actress, twenty year-old Dorothy Malone, in a bit part with then super star, Bogart. She was so nervous that her hands were shaking badly when she accepts a drink from Bogie, they had to make numerous takes, then finally had to weigh down the cup with lead.

LOL. Needless to say, I love this film for many reasons. I can’t get enough of it.

I once paid to watch a movie twice, but not because it was good. It’s a long story.

I was about 16 at the time, and still a fan girl of Sherlock Holmes who would get wild at anything Sherlock Holmes. Back then Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadow was out. I was crazy about it, but I knew I was still largely financially dependent on my parents and I was sure they wouldn’t let me pay for the cinema alone. So one day when I had a chance to go out with a friend, we decided to lie to my parents and go to see the movie, and I poured nearly half of my saving into the ticket. The movie was horrible. I felt insulted as a Sherlock Holmes fan and felt like I had wasted my time and money.

Then one day an acquaintance told my parents that she would take me to see a movie and they agreed. She chose A Game of Shadow because she knew I was a fan and she wanted to see what Sherlock Holmes was like. I couldn’t say anything because my parents weren’t supposed to know I had gone to the cinema without their permission. So I forced myself to go through that abomination again. Not a nice memory.

I watched Diamonds Are Forever about 14 times in the cinemas, but that was long before home video players. Since then I simply wait until it comes to DVD.
There are exceptions. Titanic, and Star Wars Episode One come to mind.

I saw “Ex Machina” myself then I went again with my son. I have a Cineworld ticket so maybe that doesn’t count. I liked everything about the movie, the story, the cast, the photography.

- The Birdcage
– Mary Poppins (my parents paid)
– Cinderella (my parents paid)

^^LOL. I saw La Cage aux Folles live on stage in Stockholm. It was hilarious and poignant, a difficult thing for a writer to pull off. I saw the film The Birdcage a couple of times while living in Miami —and actually paid for it both times. It was an excellent and faithful adaptation. They merely changed the geography from St. Tropez to South Beach and updated the circumstance. I would pay for it again to watch it in a theater just to witness people’s reactions to certain scenes It was a very human story.

Welll… I haven’t paid for a movie since 1996.

This might be a shocker but I used to work at a movie theater.

But I have watched four movies multiple times for free in a theater.

The Game, The Wedding Singer, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Something About Mary.

The Game is one of the best movies ever made.

@Espiritus_Corvus I’ve seen The Burdcage probably four times, the last two being on TV. The reason I saw it twice in the theater was because after already seeing it with my husband, a friend of mine wanted to see it, and I decided what the hell and went with her. It sticks with me that I saw it twice in the cinema, because I don’t think I’ve done that ever before or after, except for Disney movies as a child before the day of the VHS. That’s funny that you also paid for The Birdcage more than once in the movie theatre of all movies. Strange coincidence. Lol. I was living in Boca Raton at the time of the release, not too far away.

Live theater I’ve seen several musicals a couple of times: Mama Mia, Wicked, Fiddler on the Roof, and also ballets like the Nutcracker I’ve seen probably 20 times.

Deja Vu (2006)

Not really, just kidding, it’s good for morale y’know ;-}
I’ve never gone to the pictures to see the same movie again, that big screen experience is a one off & can’t be replicated.

The only one that I can recall ever going to the cinema twice for was Star Wars: the Force Awakens. I had planned on seeing Rogue One again, but time kinda got away from me.

Star Trek (2009) I saw this the second time the very next day.

Dark Shadows (I’m probably the only one, but Johnny Depp in white face make up and a British accent, really did it for me) I’m pretty sure I saw this one the next day too, by myself.

The final Harry Potter movie (specifically because of Alan Rickman) I saw this one about a week later, by myself, so I could cry when Snape died.

Star Wars episode IV (I saw that movie at the theater 8 times when it came out. Me and my friends would run out of the theater and get back in line, and it was back in the days when there was only one screen, so we had to wait through the showing of the movie that was running immediately after we ran out of the theater, because there were already people in line who had purchased tickets while we were in the previous movie, but it was so much fun. We felt like we were part of something amazing, which we were)