A lot! Probably about 20 times as well. I love watching it with people that have never seen it before - it brings back a lot of the apprehension that I felt the first time I saw it knowing that the person I'm watching it with is experiencing it for the first time.

As I usually try to watch as many unseen films as possible, I've only watched it four times. But each viewing has been an experience. The most haunting was a midnight screening in an original CinemaScope theater in Vienna. The long walks through the corridors on that huge curved screen, such an intense memory! To this day Alien remains one of my all time favourite Sci-Fi films.

I still have yet to see this on the big screen. One day!

Every frame of this movie is a masterpiece. I've lost count how many times I've seen it. It's got to be well over 100 times by now.

10 - 15 times I'd say.
Right from the opening credits when the title gradually forms on the screen accompanied by that simple but eerie score you know you're in for something special.

(RIP John Hurt)

Depends upon what you call "watched." When I'm exercising, folding laundry, or doing chores I typically have it running in the background. Basically, I run at least a portion of Alien in my home every day. I rarely complete it--the first half up until the chestburster is far and away my favorite part of the film--but I'll do so occasionally. I'd say I've completed it at least fifty+ times. That's a pretty conservative number.

It's my favorite movie of all time and what I consider to be one of only a few "perfect" films, apart from clunky technical O'Bannon dialogue generally handed to poor Lambert or Dallas. Hell, it's my screen name on almost every site I bother to comment on, so you might say I'm obsessed with it. (But not as much, it seems, as the guy that runs the Hybrid Theory channel on YouTube.)

Alien is my all time favorite movie. I have recently bought the vinyl record and I've listened to that about 10 times already. Nice creepy backdrop music for when I am doing homework and such! Now to how many times I've watched the film. Has to be over 100, maybe even 200. I first saw this movie when I was very young, and I remember how terrified and enamored I was. As a kid I begged my mom for the Kenner action figures, which I still have pieces of... I am also fortunate enough to see it last year on the big screen (I did have to fly to another state).

I think 5 or 6 times, max...in other words, not nearly enough. Think I'll watch it again tonight actually.

It's also one of those films that I didn't grow to appreciate until much later. As a youngster I felt underwhelmed and bored but the slower pace and dialogue is now what really draws me to it. Great build-up and phenomenal payoff.

"Col Needswiss"? LOL

I've probably watched Alien 12-15 times over the years.

At least 50 times - definite top 3 film

@Rumpelstiltskin said:

I would say I've seen it around 20+ times.

I think 4-5 times but I don't remember seeing it in the last 10 years at all.

I first watched it in 1996 when it came on TV (I had already read the novelization by then), and I recorded it on VHS (shortly after that they aired Aliens as well so I recorded that one too), and watched it at least 30 times (along with Aliens which was on the same tape). As I tend not to "over-watch" the movies I like, I have not watched it at all in the last 7-8 years.

More times than you can possibly imagine.

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I watched it this week at the cinema and it was a wonderful experience.

Why do you have to watch it so many times? Do you have ADHD or poor memory?

The only movie I've seen more than once over a short period of time was The Wailing (2016), and that's only because the movie is intentionally difficult to interpret and I was also writing up an analysis of it. I watched that once start to finish initially and I went back to see individual scenes later for analysis. I guess you could say I watched in 3 times total, although I haven't seen it start to finish after that initial time.

For Alien, I watched it once when I was a child. I don't even know if you can call it "watching" it because I covered my eyes many times. I saw it once more when I was an adult. I don't feel it is necessary to watch it more. The movie itself is fairly straightforward unlike The Wailing.

I watch some outstanding movies if many years have passed after initial viewing. Moon (2009) and Take Shelter (2011) are movies that I rewatched recently just because I enjoyed them so much initially. Take Shelter, in particular, had a very different effect on my on second viewing because I analyzed details like how the filmmaker used music to tell a story, and I analyzed each line of dialogue more carefully. I came to a drastically different conclusion about the ending after second viewing. Rewatching Moon was a mistake, I got nothing more out of it upon second viewing, it tells its story very clearly without any ambiguity.

Alien does have complex themes which you can decipher without viewing it over and over. But, I don't recall any ambiguity in any of the scenes so I don't see how viewing it over and over can crystallize your analysis of it.

I don't know what watching a movie many times is supposed to prove? Does it prove your expertise on the movie? Does it validate the value of the movie?