11-18-2017 MOVIE NIGHT

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WELCOME TO MOVIE NIGHT
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PARANORMAL FORUM DOT NET

Please join us at 10 pm (Eastern Time)
Its lots of fun chatting and watching movies. We have movie trivia, too.

Links and information for movies are in this thread.
For live chat during movie, go to the 11-18-2017 Saturday Live Chat Thread
( leave both windows open for movie watching and posting )

For movie watching instructions go to Post #5 below
Check your setup with post #6 below

Bring your own finger food, popcorn, peanuts, candy, beer, wine, soda and other snacks
( Sharing permitted :) )

Thanks for coming and enjoy the movies !​
 

Hangar 18 (1980), 97 minutes, Action, Biography, Sci-Fi​

Director: James L. Conway
Writers: Ken Pettus, Thomas C. Chapman
Stars: Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins
The film begins with two astronauts (Collins, Hampton) encountering a UFO in orbit while launching a military satellite. The satellite collides with the UFO, causing an explosion and killing a third astronaut in the cargo bay who had been watching the satellite's progress. But the UFO makes a surprisingly controlled landing in the Arizona desert, thus necessitating its quick removal and forcing the president's chief of staff (Vaughn, an absolutely steely performance) to concoct a cover story to avoid serious damage to his boss's chances for re-election.

Naturally, both Collins and Hampton are fingered by Vaughn and his staff for blame in the incident. This forces them to gather hard evidence to clear themselves, but it also means that they'll be pursued by government agents the entire way. Meanwhile, at Hangar 18, located at an air force base in Texas, a team of scientists, led by McGavin, are learning everything they possibly can about the UFO and its alien occupants. What they find about those aliens is how uncannily similar they are to humans.

IMDB rating 5.3 / 10
 
Movie watching instructions:

It is best to have two windows open so that you can watch the movie in one window and chat in the other.

This can be accomplished in a MS Windows environment by starting a movie and dragging the browser tab away from the browser until a separate window is created. Then re-size the window so that just the movie is showing. The other option to create a second window is to start the movie and hit the YouTube icon lower right hand corner. This will create a new window on some computers or you can drag the browser tab to create a second window. Re-size the chat and movie windows until these fill the computer screen.

The other option for viewingand chatting is to use two devices ( phone, iPad, tablet, computer, TV) together tocreate the two windows. Thesecond device must be capable of playing YouTube. For example open theParaNormalForum ( PNF) with your phone and use this for your chat device. Next open the PNF with a second device such as an iPad and play the movie on this device.

You can also play the movie on your TV if the TV supports YouTube/Vimeo* or you have astreaming device like Apple TV or Roku. In this case you will have to search YouTube/Vimeo for the movie being played. A nice trick is to search for all movies earlier in the evening so that they show up in the YouTube search history. Then come movie time, you can easily pick the next movie.

The movies are listed above in this thread. We like to start each movie on cue from a movie host so that everyone is at the same place in the movie. This makes comments much more timely and meaningful.

Note: If you are new to the PNF Saturday Movies, welcome. It is a lot of fun. Practice the above procedures to see what works best for you. Ask questions if the procedure above isn't working for you. The PNF has lots of friendly members willing to assist. Movie night is meant to be stress free.
 
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