I recall quite liking Newsies. But I was 14 and not much of a movie watcher at the time, so I don't trust my recalled assessment at all.

I love "The Black Hole" - the theme song, especially the extended prelude gives me chills.

innerSpaceman, if you can't catch it at the Arclight, I'll fire it up at our house for a screening.

I've never seen Newsies. But, seriously, The Rocketeer is actually a good movie.

I thought Newsies was cool. Loved the "Seize the Day" song.

Ok, what did the Hollywood Arclight do to get the relative crap that is unlikely to have any chance at bringing in an audience outside the relative narrow Disney geek crowd?

Three themes I guess:
Animated Classics
Mostly Live Action Musical Classics
Live Action Non-Musical Classics That Prove That Generally "Live Action Disney Non-Musical Classic" is an oxymoron.

I love seeing old movies theatrically but can't imagine paying (especially Arclight prices) for any of those five and two of them I'd demand reparations if forced to sit through again.

Locate themselves in Hollywood where there's a never-ending supply of niche film geeks?

"Something Wicked..." was the first film Chris and I saw together. Not "together" but we were both with the same group of people.

If Hollywood has a surplus of people wanting to pay $18 to watch mediocre to bad old Disney movies on a Monday night then I guess it is a smarter move than I give them credit for. But that still seems like a really narrow niche.

I'll likely never know, I guess, whether I'm right or wrong. Unless someone here goes to all of them and reports on attendance. But that would mean someone having to sit through Something Wicked This Way Comes and that would just be cruel.

I like Something Wicked This Way Comes. A flawed film, no doubt, but Bradbury's script and the lead acting talents of Pryce and Robards shine through. I would have liked to see it with the original Georges Delerue score (it's been released on its own on CD), but it's nowhere near as bad as you might suggest.

It's painfully bad. We can agree to disagree if you'll acknowledge that I'm right and you're just being cantankerous.