This looks like the most pointless movie in the history of movies.

I'm still waiting on Jacob's Ladder II. What's the holdup?

I know how he feels,a guy that lives a few houses away has a crappy old Fiat Punto,the alarm goes off every night,i wouldn't mind so much if he had a car worth taking.I think the alarm cost more than his car. So,yeah,i will watch this film

Despite having one of the strangest plots I've ever heard of, this movie looks hilarious.

Looks like a steaming pile of shite.

How often do you hear car alarms going off? It's extremely rare that I hear them.

Tim Robbins had just put on a Philip Glass CD and sat down to a nice Macrobiotic dinner when some guys car alarm went off.....How is Tim supposed to have a nice conversation about the alternative uses for Hemp and enjoy his wheatgrass smoothie with all of that noise??????

OK... I'll say it... I hate those damn things and the movie could just be an hour and half of him beating on cars that have them... and that would be the best thing to watch.

Is the irony of a movie staring Tim Robbins as a guy driven mad by things that are loud and often annoying lost on everyone?

@amblito: @amblito: There's one that goes off outside my house three or four times a night. I live in Glendale, most of what I hear during the night are car alarms and sirens. The mockingbird on my street has even started to imitate the car alarm that goes off most often.

I get it. I've been there.

I park in a parking garage at work and there is a dangerous combination of Borla-growling muscle cars and fart-can-equipped ricers that blip the throttle or vibe the bass just to set off the parked hoopties and other ricers that have the chirpy late-80's era car alarms installed. In the confines of the parking garage the cacophony can be infuriating if not outright deafening.

Geez, I'm getting old.

@teargas: Hopefully he gets pummeled to death by one of the car owners in the end, in which case it might be worth seeing.

@amblito: Car alarms do seem to be either getting scarce or better. I can remember living in the dorms at Georgia Tech in the early 1990s. Everytime a thunderstorm came through about 10 car alarms would go off in the parking lot. There were usually 2-3 cars a week stolen out of the same lot too.

Of course about an hour before I typed this there was a Scion car alarm goiing off in the parking lot here are work. I think more people just use the factory alarms now.

For reasons nobody knows, many late-model VWs have alarms with speakers INSIDE the car. What good this does, I don't know. But to borrow a line from Snatch, "What are we gonna do, deafen 'em to death?"

So far, I've only been inside the car once when the alarm went off. And it sucked.

I gonna got out on a limb here and say this entire premise is spot on. Not just car alarms, but the constant noise pollution in our lives. Why does everything I own ding at whether I (it's owner and the devices entire reason for existence) actually want it to.

i.e., my dishwasher dings loudly to let me know my dishes are done. Why? I know my dishes will be done soon, I turned on the effing machine. NO way to disable the ding

My cell phone (granted a piece of Motorola junk), chirps incessantly to tell me the battery is low. This wakes me in the middle of the night. Why? NO way to disable the chirp

I coudl go on and on but hte numebr of things that make noise and flash lights at us i truly uinbeliveve. I think engineers don;t feel like they've completed work on ANYTHING until they make it beep and flash, or better yet both.

Oh yeah, I'd still nail Susan Sarandon, Tim could watch that for a little noise pollution...but I digress...

Come to think of it, Tom Brady may have ruined Bridget Monyhann for me, damn, what a waste, girl looks good with a cello

@Ash78: For exactly that reason: It sucks to be inside the car. So if you break in, you're gonna hurry back out instead of thoroughly searching the car for valuables. It makes more sense than announcing to the uncaring world "hey, something's happening here!"

Some house alarms are set up to do the same thing; sound several 120-130 decibel sirens *inside* the house, so it's actually painful to rob the place.

@Fiat CinqueBENTO: He listens to Peruvian throat singing, or whatever foreign music happens to be popular that week. I know, he won't get his damn patchouli stink out of my store.

The only use I've ever had for a car alarm is finding something in a crowded parking lot.

"Coming soon to a theatre near you, Tim Robins is...the Pensioner!"

"Get off my lawn you damn kids!"

"The Rectalfryer"? OUCH!

I thought it looked amusing until the wife said, "you don't like the noise but you refuse to move somewhere quiet." That's when all actions in the trailer became annoying. Just f-ing move already if the city is too noisy for you.

@TheTooth: But then where is he gonna get his double-iced mocha latte frappucinos and his John Tesh CDs?!

@dwhite: Nick Bollea's new movie???

Dumb movie plot, great real-life idea.

When we lived in downtown Honolulu (late 80's) some guy got a car with a way-too-sensitive alarm, that would go off four or five times a night. I finally traced it down, and left a note (printed on my dot-matrix printer) taped to a tastefully gift-wrapped brick set on the roof of the car, over the driver's door.

It said: "You have 24 hours to repair or disconnect this car alarm. I have a whole pile of these in my back yard".

I never heard that particular alarm again.

Hey, all I know about Tim Robbins' movies and cars (or trucks) is there's a big motherfuckin' spider on his head.

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haha too funny. I'll go see it. While most people consider car alarms a pointless annoyance, I have the ability to distinguish my alarm from anybody else's. My old integra had a vibration alarm and I would wake up out of a dead sleep if it went off. One time I caught some jackass trying to push my car with his SUV to get a parking space. I scared him pretty bad (I guess a naked guy leaning out his window screaming at the top of his lungs is pretty scary). What's funnier is a week later I saw him driving on the block and yelled "I'm gonna get you" and he took off. Haven't seen him since.

I wouldn't mind rectifying Bridget Moynihan...what a woman!

It seems like this script was written 15 years ago when car alarms were ubiquitous. Is this really a problem these days? Wasn't it the rich yuppies and their gentrification of inner cities that made car alarms so necessary in the first place?

I hate car alarm noise too... But I think the problem are those ultra-sensitive aftermarket ones that go off if a truck drives by or will go off if someone just stands near the car.

I think I'm gonna go see that movie.

Long ago there was a talking alarm that said "You are standing too close to this (insert car name) Ford Mustang." I don't remember the actual breed of car.

We rarely hear the car alarms but a neighbor needs a taxi ride every other evening and the taxi always rolls up and blows the horn twice. Hey, they called you, Taxi--what do your customers do, call you and then turn up their stereos as loud as possible, forcing you to blow the horn every single freaking time?

viper! stand back!
(yeah, eat my fuck. *kicks goddamn car out of pure black-hearted spite*)

I live in downtown manhattan and can count on one hand the number of times I've even heard a car alarm in the last five years.

Garbage trucks at 4am and ConEd crews are far FAR greater annoyances.