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

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 9, 12:03=A0am, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 12:42 am, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
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> > On Feb 7, 9:37 pm, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > kjwkjw wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:59:22 -0500, JoeRaisin
> > > > <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > >> 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 wa=
s broken
> > > >>>>>>> into and terrorised. She of course then had an alarm system i=
nstalled
> > > >>>>>>> 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 dec=
ided to
> > > >>>>>>> start stalking her. Sneaking in and bypassing the alarm syste=
m.
> > > >>>>>>> He ends up taking her hostage, and calling the central statio=
n and
> > > >>>>>>> changing the voice code. Although in the end, he providdes th=
e 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 mov=
ie. 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 searchi=
ng
> > > >>> and a few previous discussions about "alarm systems in movies" i
> > > >>> thought i would post here. being interested in alarms, i'm sure y=
ou
> > > >>> 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 i=
t
> > > >> clear that's what you're looking. I thought you were looking for t=
he
> > > >> 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-
>
> Hmmm,
>
> At first it sounded like a really terrible movie.
> I didn't think I was going to watch it until I got to the last item.
>
> See? =A0Sometimes it takes just one redeeming item to make a whole movie
> worth watching.

If you don't know anything about security systems it wasn't a bad movie