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



On Feb 9, 12:42=EF=BF=BDam, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 9:37=EF=BF=BDpm, 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 was =
broken
> > >>>>>>> into and terrorised. She of course then had an alarm system ins=
talled
> > >>>>>>> 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 decid=
ed 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 w=
hen
> > >>>>>>> he's coming in, you can see the "bypass"light flashing on the k=
eypad
> > >>>>>>> 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=
. =EF=BF=BDBut
> > >>>> 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. =EF=BF=BDI thought you were lookin=
g for the
> > >> alarm system as well until your confusion at the AT&T 8000 answer...
>
> > >> Any idea who the stars were? =EF=BF=BDOr other movies/characters the=
y play?
>
> > > That sounds like a movie from the early 90's with Ray Liotta and
> > > Madeline Stowe called Unlawful Entry. =EF=BF=BDI don't remember the d=
etails,
> > > 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?  Sometimes it takes just one redeeming item to make a whole movie
worth watching.


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