Steve Ruppel, 39, has watched ‘Captain Marvel’ 116 times to break the world record (Picture: WSAW)

A man broke the record for most times watching a single movie in a theater by seeing ‘Captain Marvel’ 116 times.

Steve Ruppel, 39, has spent 12,268 watching the film, one of the latest installments of films set in the famed Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Ruppel said he needed to watch the movie at least 104 times to break the previous record, but decided to make it 116 times as he collected evidence required to make it in Guinness.

‘To be official, i have to have certain pictures taken, like in front of a movie poster, and I need to have written two statements saying that I was actually there,’ Ruppel told WSAW-TV.




‘So I’m trying to think, if anyone wanted to break this, I really don’t want to re-break it. Because this has been pretty tough…I don’t think I’m going to try this one again.’

To be official, Ruppel has to document each time he goes to the movie by taking a picture with a movie poster, as well as get witnesses to corroborate his record (Picture: WSAW)

This is not the first record Ruppel has broken. In fact, it is his fifth and it appears as though one of his longtime hobbies is setting odd, unbeatable benchmarks.

He has set the record for running a half marathon while wearing the greatest number of T-Shirts, which he did by squeezing into 52 multicolored shirts of ascending size.

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Ruppel is also the quickest person to drink a full liter of gravy after he did so in one minute and just over 12 seconds.

So when he came across the movie watching record, he knew he had to do it despite how difficult he knew it would be.

‘I thought it was the most insane thing ever, I thought it was impossible…but I thought after a while “I should probably do that,”‘ he said.

Ruppel has also set the record drinking a liter of gravy in one minute and twelve seconds (Picture: Guiness World Records)

To accomplish the feat, he had to take time off work – or he would take extra long lunch breaks to sneak in another screening.

The constant repetition became boring though, so he began focusing on details in the background of the film.

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‘So there’s one particular scene in the movie where in the background there’s a calendar. And it says June of 1995. And then later on in that particular day, there’s a full moon,’ he said.

‘So at the end, I just Googled when there was a full moon in June of 1995. And it came out to be Tuesday, June 13th of 1995.’

Now that he has already shattered the record, he says me might let the record stay at 116, especially because the movie is no longer showing at his local theater.