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

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

mleuck wrote:
> On Feb 9, 8:00 am, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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...
>
> I figure if I put it at the beginning nobody else would have read the
> rest

Well... yeah... sort of my point....