And the final list is:
Start Time Title8:00pm(ish) Independence Day: Resurgence (2016, PG-13, DCP)
10:45pm Metropolis (1927/2010 restoration, NR, DCP)
1:30am Surprise 1 (????, PG-13, 35mm)
4:00am Gulliver's Travels (1939, NR, Blu-ray)
5:30am Death Race 2000 (1975, R, media TBD)
7:00am Have Rocket Will Travel (1959, NR, 35mm)
9:15am Akira (1988, R, Blu-ray)
11:30am Surprise 2 (????, NR, DVD)
1:15pm The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984, PG, 35mm film)
3:00pm The Little Prince (1974, G, DVD)
4:45pm Surprise 3 (????, PG, 35mm)
7:30pm Arrival (2016, PG-13, DCP)
9:45pm The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005, PG, 35mm)
11:45pm Ghostbusters (2016, PG-13, 35mm)
I am going.
However with the exceptions of Three Stooges classic
Have Rocket and possibly some Surprise, I share the experience of most people here of having seen every film listed.
Perhaps they've given up on the long term Thon audience and are programming for the students?
Since to the best of my memory the Surprises are always oldies, they probably won't change the experience.
The first & last are decent and recent. A couple are historic classics.
Arrival is excellent (but I wish they'd stayed closer to the original short story.)
Hitchiker is amiably flaky. You can rate
Death Race, Buckaroo, & Akira yourselves.
But as Aaron said, CWRU has it's own charm. And the popcorn is still cheap.
I have seen fewer movies than most fans here, or many longtermers in Cleveland. Even with this level of familiarity the list is disappointing.Sad that CWRU has gotten so mundane.