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As a little child, Asterix and the 12 trials (very lose translation)
As an adult, Mad Max Fury Road. Fucking amazing on the big screen.
Scott Pilgrim vs the world, several friends hadn't seen it yet so of course i went with them. fantastic movie that still goes pretty hard.
Mad Max.
Jurassic Park, the original Star Wars trilogy when it was released in theaters again before the prequels, Inception, and the newest Mad Max. There were a few others, but those are the ones I remember.
Wreck it Ralph. Infinity War. Into the Spider-Verse. Watched them twice each in IMAX.
I think the only movie I've seen multiple times in the theater was Black Panther
Interstellar, I went to see it the first time with friends then two others times alone.
The second time I got goosebumps as soon as the organ started playing in the cornfield chase.
City of God.
Previously, I had never ever seen a movie in theaters twice. If I had seen a movie once and wanted to watch it again, I could wait to buy it for myself. It just didn't ever make much sense to me as to why anyone would watch the same movie multiple times in like a one-month time span.
And then Everything Everywhere All At Once came out, and I saw it again the week after I saw it the first time, and then I understood. What a fantastic movie.
Raccacoonie
I saw Oppenheimer in IMAX opening day and loved it so much I did it again a week later doing the Barbenheiner. Listening to it's soaring score in IMAX was practically a religious experience
I saw Ghostbusters Afterlife twice. That may be the only movie I've seen in theater twice on initial run.
I did see the 3 BTTF movies in theater even though I've owned the tapes and DVDs for decades.
BMX Bandits
I also went to see this in the cinema a few times as a kid and loved it. I happened to rewatch it a few weeks ago as I hadn't seen it since.
My advice is to keep your treasured memories. It unfortunately doesn't hold up well. :)
I saw Independence Day 3 times in the theater.
Captain Marvel, great 90s soundtrack and female superhero amongst a sea of male ones. Not the best marvel movie but enjoyable enough for me to watch twice.
The Room - not a good movie but I did enjoy it.
Titanic. Saw it 4 times in the theater.
I actually wondered if it was going to sink the first time I watched it. Movie is so well made you didn't even realize what's going to happen until it does.
Baraka -- I've seen it at least a dozen times, most of them in movie theaters.
Oh man, lucky you!
I want a double feature with Samsara π±
Too bad there doesn't seem to be a third (or fourth if we count Chronos) one coming...
I spent a long time living in places that had saved their one last 'classic' movie theater by turning it into a rerun palace for 'art films', cult classics and other specialty cinema.
Also, I bought the DVD of Baraka that came out in the late 90s or so, and I was so disappointed in how visually awful the digital transfer was at that time, the disc was honestly not even worth watching. Not just because of small screens, the problem was that whoever did the digital transfer had completely fucked up the frame rate conversion in a way that caused every one of the many time-lapse sequences to move with a really annoying jitter. There was no possible playback setting or processing to fix it either, the process had removed information making it impossible to smooth or recover, at least back then.
So that junk DVD motivated me to just keep grabbing anyone I could, or no one if no one was around, and going out of my way to see the movie every time it came to a big screen within an hour of me. Now it's been years since my last watch... I'm not sure how much more I could take of it now that it's so clear the human race already sold out its long term survival for short term gain.
Not the same director, but a similar spirit - you don't count Koyaanisqatsi?
I was only counting the movies directed by Fricke, have yet to watch the qatsi movies
Iron Man. Two or three times, depending if you count when they fucked up the reel and restarted it over partway in.