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.
The Fellowship of the Ring. Probably the other two movies as well but this one stands out in my mind.
The first Pirates of the Caribbean as well. Back before they turned it into a franchise. Such a fun adventure movie.
I have a huge soft spot for the second and third pirates films. I think looking at the first and thinking it could make a great trilogy is totally valid and although they’re definitely much more long winded than the first with less lovable characters, they’re good films and if I ever revisit the first, I generally revisit the second and third too.
I watched the Dungeons and Dragons movie when it came out and really enjoyed it, but it definitely felt like I was watching a marvel movie, albeit a well written one, Pirates may be the last YA action adventure franchise that isn’t just the re-skinned marvel formula, which makes it far more watchable than 80% of the genre since.
Also Pirates 3 is basically the creator of the horrible pressure CGI artists have suffered under for the past 15 years, so take that as you may.
While I enjoy the Pirates trilogy, I feel like they could just as easily have kept it a single movie. It was fine, the story was conclusive enough to satisfy and open ended enough to tickle the imagination.
Not everything has to be turned into a franchise or a ‘verse.
I do agree, and generally I don’t want everything to be a franchise or a verse. However I feel that a trilogy although generally profit driven can expand a film in a nice way, such as the original star wars or Indiana Jones trilogies.
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.
Bladerunner 2049. I saw it five or so times in IMAX.
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.
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.
Inglorious Basterds. Christopher Waltz is just so good in that role.
I dunno why someone downvoted you for this one - Christoph Waltz is amazing in everything.
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.
Dune is the only movie I willingly rewatched at the cinema. Looking forward to the second part.
The Matrix. I saw it at least four times in the theater.
I went to Pulp Fiction 3 times on opening weekend.
That was a good weekend.
Star Wars.
Watched the matinee every day for a week when it first came to our local cinema.
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?
The first Spiderverse. Saw it with the girlfriend then again with a buddy. I maintain that these are the best movies ever made.
Matrix. I think I’ve watched it over 30times
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.
