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Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

MrEvil — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:52:04 EDT

Damn, I want to see this movie. I've long wished I could destroy cars with alarms because they DO in fact go off more often by accident than they do when actually being stolen. Ask anyone in Houston whose had his/her car stolen. I don't know how many people I've met that have had a car stolen and they in fact had a noise-maker car alarm.

Now if Tim Robbins makes a sequel where he beats the shit out of those twats that think eggs are only good for lobbing at cars, I can die with no regrets.

MrEvil

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Buzz Killington — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:55:17 EDT

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.

Buzz Killington

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

tomax — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:44:12 EDT

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

tomax

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Novaload — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:25:41 EDT

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?

Novaload

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

petersterncan — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:51:12 EDT

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.

petersterncan

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

stevezilla — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:44:24 EDT

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?

stevezilla

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Raddy21 — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:06:45 EDT

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

Raddy21

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

dolo54 — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:04:21 EDT

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.

dolo54

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

SundaySunday — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:02:12 EDT

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

SundaySunday

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Smitty — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:01:04 EDT

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.

Smitty

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

SpeedWagon — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:34:25 EDT

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

SpeedWagon

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

bzr the paranoid android — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:23:12 EDT

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

bzr the paranoid android

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

TheTooth — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:19:32 EDT

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

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

dwhite — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:10:08 EDT

"The Rectalfryer"? OUCH!

dwhite

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

discontinuuity — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:09:14 EDT

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

"Get off my lawn you damn kids!"

discontinuuity

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Maymar — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:35 EDT

@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.

Maymar

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

dculberson — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:59:17 EDT

@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.

dculberson

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

eastaboga — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:50:00 EDT

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

eastaboga

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

eastaboga — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:42:12 EDT

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...

eastaboga

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Ash78 — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:41:57 EDT

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.

Ash78

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

P161911 — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:35 EDT

@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.

P161911

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

tenbeers — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:34 EDT

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

tenbeers

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

TBlueMax — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:00 EDT

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.

TBlueMax

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

bruxell — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:35:40 EDT

@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.

bruxell

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

teargas — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:34:18 EDT

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?

teargas

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

bruxell — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:34:09 EDT

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.

bruxell

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Bentos, Der Frischmacher! — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:28:59 EDT

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??????

Bentos, Der Frischmacher!

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

amblito — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:18:32 EDT

Looks like a steaming pile of shite.

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

amblito

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

NcSchu — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:16 EDT

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

NcSchu

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

layabout — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:15:40 EDT

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

layabout

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

Ash78 — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:12:25 EDT

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

Ash78

Tim Robbins Really Doesn't Like Car Alarms

bzr the paranoid android — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:10:43 EDT

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

bzr the paranoid android