The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

[Star Lord]

One of us!

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

There's a Reddit user who claims to have watched 127 Hours over 300 times. She also claims to be autistic. Another one swears they've seen Bones and All over 100 times.

The last time in my life I had the disposition and the free time to watch the same movie over and over again - at home; at the cinema it was always unthinkable - was when I was a child. It's hard to fathom an adult of sound mind being so compulsive and free of obligations.

See my post above.

[spanky87]

From the Pride & Prejudice (2005) Wikipedia page

In December 2017, Netflix announced that a person from Chile watched Pride & Prejudice 278 times that year. It was later reported that the person was a 51-year-old woman, who declared herself "obsessed" with the film and saw Elizabeth Bennet as "a feminist icon".

[RossyG]

Originally Posted by spanky87

From the Pride & Prejudice (2005) Wikipedia page

Yep, she’s definitely mental.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

There's a Reddit user who claims to have watched 127 Hours over 300 times. She also claims to be autistic. Another one swears they've seen Bones and All over 100 times.

The last time in my life I had the disposition and the free time to watch the same movie over and over again - at home; at the cinema it was always unthinkable - was when I was a child. It's hard to fathom an adult of sound mind being so compulsive and free of obligations.

I saw Top Gun: Maverick in theater eight times, that's the most for me.

But I also could! Know why? It was in theaters long enough!

Outside of Nolan movies, no other films are getting that kind of release window anymore. Crying shame.

[John1701D]

Originally Posted by Resident Evil Labs

Im honestly curious too, how can an adult see a movie so man times in a theater, if they have a job or a family or kids? When I was single for 7 years, I still had a full time job and school, I love movies and games and fangoria and books. But I never had tons of free time, I would go out on the weekend's to bars and clubs, but everything had to be pre planned accordingly. Now i have a fiance and a kid on the way, but i am genuinely curious? How do single people with no kids see a movie every month 20 times in a theater, it seems almost implausible... Like where is the time for reading, or walking or working out, or socializing? Im really confused

This is really the right question. I read novels. I watch TV. I play video games. I post here. I have pets. I work full time.
There's not enough time in life to do everything I want.

I remember someone posting in the Lost TV thread that they'd just finished the series for like the 7th time. Truly WTF, that's more than 600 hours. Have you watched all the other good shows available??

[wonderer99]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

I would say it’s the opposite. Doing fun stuff is always great for your mental health

Now, fun-shaming, on the other hand… I dunno…

No fun shaming and no offence meant. Its just borderline psychotic to me

Originally Posted by Jaymole

My brain is definitely wired different that others. I like to wait at least 2 or 3 years before I choose to watch a movie again.

Plus there are so many movies I want to see that I have not seen yet.

Same here. For me its the opposite to Blu, the more I love a film the more I want to keep it......special if that makes sense? I watch my absolute favorite films maybe once every two, three years. Each to their own but I just couldn't watch things on repeat like that, one because there is so much other stuff to watch and two by watching things more sparingly you will always discover new stuff in them. The excitement of watching your favorite films must be depleted somewhat by watching them over and over in such a short time frame?

Also these folk that go to see films that many times. We are talking about a single movie. So they spend like 30-40 hours in a theatre for one movie and then whatever else on top for all the other films they see. No wonder they have so much money, they are never home. Their bills much be zero.

[d2cheer]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I wonder what kind of business this movie would've made if:

[Show spoiler]We never learned that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Doom at Comic-Con 2024, and in this movie's mid-credit scene the camera panned to reveal RDJ's face.

You already know what kind of pop theaters would have, and despite people/articles wanting to spoil everything today, there would still be enough other folks egging on their friends to "absolutely see it in theater" without revealing this at all. Sometimes a promise/tease of a big cameo is enough.

Hell, my sister just watched No Way Home for the first time last month, and had no idea Tobey and Andrew were in the movie. Some people are just unplugged from certain Internet and social media circles.

Maybe...but maybe not. It didn't help Tokyo Drift when that was projected to bomb and word got out that you needed to stay until the end credits.

It probably would have helped opening weekend no doubt but after doubtful.

[moreorless]

I watched The Two Towers 11 times at the cinema but that was over about 3 months and it cost me about £2 each time.

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

This does have some truth to it, Disney only gets a share of the box-office but it gets pretty much 100% of what subscribers pay, I think.

Regardless, the MCU has already made close to $10b just since 2021. Every studio in Hollywood would kill for a franchise that made those kinds of numbers during this downturn.

Having a large franchise were everything is on offer at a single streaming outlet does I suspect make this more likely to happen, some random blockbusters most people will not really be aware of when and were it will be on offer for streaming but pretty much everyone will know MCU films end up on Disney+ for free in 3-4 months.

I suspect Disney would still prefer the cinema business but the streaming business maybe worth more in this case than a lot of other blockbusters.

[MWF6425]

Originally Posted by mwynn

For the crime of seeing a movie multiple times in theater. The Bluray.com Tribunal says you are guilty.

[moreorless]

Your Verdict?

Nerds

Nerds

Nerds

Nerds

[ccateni]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I wonder what kind of business this movie would've made if:

[Show spoiler]We never learned that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Doom at Comic-Con 2024, and in this movie's mid-credit scene the camera panned to reveal RDJ's face.

You already know what kind of pop theaters would have, and despite people/articles wanting to spoil everything today, there would still be enough other folks egging on their friends to "absolutely see it in theater" without revealing this at all. Sometimes a promise/tease of a big cameo is enough.

Hell, my sister just watched No Way Home for the first time last month, and had no idea Tobey and Andrew were in the movie. Some people are just unplugged from certain Internet and social media circles.

Not much.
Even if they teased Doom and showed his face, the film wasn't pulling in the interest.
The film itself was good and it still didn't pull enough people because the marketing was a failure.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by d2cheer

Maybe...but maybe not. It didn't help Tokyo Drift when that was projected to bomb and word got out that you needed to stay until the end credits.

It probably would have helped opening weekend no doubt but after doubtful.

Tokyo Drift was going straight to video. But when executives at Universal saw the finished film they said wow with no stars this is really good with admiration for director Justin Lin.

Vin Diesel's career was in the dumper and he was no longer so high and mighty after the first F&F film so they approached him with returning to the series.

So that ending was tacked on because Universal had already decided to re-start the series with Vin. Universal at the time was desperately searching for a franchise to exploit.

Universal didn't care if people saw the end of Tokyo Drift, they knew the word would get out and they could build on that cameo for the next Fast & Furious movie.

When I saw Tokyo Drift at a screening I though it was a great film way better than the second film.

[MovieReviews331]

Originally Posted by ccateni

Not much.
Even if they teased Doom and showed his face, the film wasn't pulling in the interest.
The film itself was good and it still didn't pull enough people because the marketing was a failure.

I would agree that the marketing was horrendous. It was everywhere, but so redundant. I had seen the trailer so much (It was attached to everything) that my enthusiasm for seeing the actual film was starting to wane.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by mwynn

For the crime of seeing a movie multiple times in theater. The Bluray.com Tribunal says you are guilty.

Oh no! I watched F4 two more times today, my total is now at 15!

Can I be sentenced to watch F4 another 15 times? Surely, then, I will repent!

How amazing is this movie that I am still discovering new things in there that somehow I had missed or didn’t pay attention to before? The movie is just packed with lots of tiny details for the fans and there’s no way to catch all of them with just one viewing.

Any day now, I will wake up speaking Zenn-Lavian….

[MuffinMcFluffin]

^ Mention one new thing you noticed on your fifteenth viewing that you didn't notice in the other previous fourteen viewings.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

^ Mention one new thing you noticed on your fifteenth viewing that you didn't notice in the other previous fourteen viewings.

Hidden Easter egg of The Watcher.

Also, finally caught the marquee title that mentions the fungi. I knew it was there somewhere, because there were screenshots floating around, but I always kept looking at the actors during that scene.

[mjvmovieman]

Originally Posted by mwynn

No worries those numbers will climb when the average ticket prices is 25.

If box office reporting was only ever reported as 'tickets sold' the narratives for success and failure would be very different.

[Kylo_Ren]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Oh no! I watched F4 two more times today, my total is now at 15!

Only 15 times?

Come on, BB! You are slacking.

You have to pump those numbers up.

[Resident Evil Labs]

Does Blu work? Genuine question?