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

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 9, 8:00=A0am, 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 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=
. =A0But
> >>>>>> 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. =A0I 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? =A0Or other movies/characters they play=
?
> >>> That sounds like a movie from the early 90's with Ray Liotta and
> >>> Madeline Stowe called Unlawful Entry. =A0I 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