Re: A movie with an alarm system. help Required.

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

mleuck wrote:
> On Feb 7, 9:37 pm, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> kjwkjw wrote:
>>> On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:59:22 -0500, JoeRaisin
>>> <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Aaron Corry wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 8, 11:40 am, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Aaron Corry wrote:
>>>>>>> On Feb 8, 11:27 am, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Feb 7, 8:15 pm, Aaron Corry <aaronco...@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello Guys,
>>>>>>>>> I watched a movie about 5 years. The plot was a female who was broken
>>>>>>>>> into and terrorised. She of course then had an alarm system installed
>>>>>>>>> in the home. ( the scenes show them installing the keypad and a switch
>>>>>>>>> on a skylight)
>>>>>>>>> She then becomes freindly with a local police officer, he decided to
>>>>>>>>> start stalking her. Sneaking in and bypassing the alarm system.
>>>>>>>>> He ends up taking her hostage, and calling the central station and
>>>>>>>>> changing the voice code. Although in the end, he providdes the wrong
>>>>>>>>> one and the police are dispatched.
>>>>>>>>> I remeber scenes where there was a keypad in her bedroom, and when
>>>>>>>>> he's coming in, you can see the "bypass"light flashing on the keypad
>>>>>>>>> and he's coming in downstairs.
>>>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>>> AT&T 8000
>>>>>>> Sorry?
>>>>>> ROTFLMAO
>>>>>> This is an alarm forum - don't expect to get the name of the movie.  But
>>>>>> you'll get a lot of guesses as to what sort of alarm system you're
>>>>>> talking about...
>>>>> Yes, that's correct. This is an alarm forum. But based on searching
>>>>> and a few previous discussions about "alarm systems in movies" i
>>>>> thought i would post here. being interested in alarms, i'm sure you
>>>>> notice, and remember the movies.
>>>>> Thank you for your input.
>>>> Your post is more than welcome as far as I'm concerned and I'm not
>>>> saying you won't get the name of the movie - but you should make it
>>>> clear that's what you're looking.  I thought you were looking for the
>>>> alarm system as well until your confusion at the AT&T 8000 answer...
>>>> Any idea who the stars were?  Or other movies/characters they play?
>>> That sounds like a movie from the early 90's with Ray Liotta and
>>> Madeline Stowe called Unlawful Entry.  I don't remember the details,
>>> so I can't confirm the stuff with the voice code, etc.
>> Is this it?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Entry_%28film%29
>
> If that is the movie I have it and they treated the security system
> aspect rather well except for a few things. I sent pictures to Stevens
> and Rojas but I think it's just a prop
>
> Huge keypad, about the size of the old Westec 5000, maybe 8x10"
>
> Branded as Wickam Security Co. which is who installed it, no other
> visible brand, looks like they installed one in the bedroom, one by
> the side or garage door and one by the front door.
>
> 8 zones on the left side that stay lit if the zones are closed which
> would be annoying
>
> Screen above the keys which you think is an LCD display but actually a
> light which like the zone LED's is also always on and even more
> annoying
>
> Armed and what appears to be a Ready LED on the left side above the
> zone LED's, no Bypass although the image isn't that clear
>
> Standard keypad on the right side with panics on 1 & 3 and * & #,
> looks like each key also does a command like Ademco, looks like she
> arms it with a 3 digit code
>
> Armed and Ready LED's and that light flash when it goes into alarm,
> siren is pretty anemic but hey it's a movie.
>
> Amusing part #1 is when Kurt Russell comes home you can see the
> keypad, offscreen he opens the door, zone 1 flashes and the keypad
> beeps like entry delay. Armed light turns off and Ready light turns on
> then within 2 seconds zone 1 stops flashing and it goes back to armed,
> no possible way he entered a code to turn it off then back on in that
> amount of time.
>
> Amusing part # 2 is when Madeleine Stowe has the bad guy Ray Liota in
> the house and her life is in danger she goes to the front door walking
> RIGHT PAST the garage keypad (where Ray was at) and with the front
> door keypad ARMS THE FREAKING SYSTEM, no panic, no duress just arms
> the system like normal, doesn't even run outside which would have at
> least alerted the neighbors..
>
> Amusing part #3 is Ray runs outside without appearing to disarm the
> system first, apparently Kurt Russell comes in another door at the
> same time also without disarming the system. If it was disarmed nobody
> armed it back up again.
>
> Ray comes back in through a double door setting off the siren which
> sounds 50 -60 seconds then stops when the monitoring station calls.
> You never hear the siren again.
>
> Amusing part #5 is when Ray gives the incorrect password the central
> station tells him it's wrong instead of the normal accepting it then
> calling the police after hanging up. Also it appears the password must
> be 7 letters for some reason
>
> Amusing part #6 is Ray gets shot at the end and there's a cat that
> during the movie gets spooked by everything however isn't phased at
> all by the noise of Ray getting 6-8 shots to the chest with a 357
> police revolver.
>
> Amusing part #7 is 5 patrol cars, 1 motorcycle cop, an unmarked car
> AND a helicopter complete with spot light show up within 10 seconds of
> each other less than 3 or 4 minutes after the phone call.
>
> House had 2 yard signs less than 20 ft apart at the front of the house
>
> Decent topless shots of Madeline Stowe in her prime at around 35 years
> old

Your last point should have been first - you gotta get your priorities
right...