"I Come In Peace" was released in 1990, but the roots are so clearly in eighties style exploitation that I'm tempted to just assume it was made in the eighties and finally released in 1990.
Thoughts anyone?
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Duh, the earliest release dates is January 1990, plus it takes approx a year to make a movie and actually if you look at the copyright at the end it shows it was finished in 1989... plus it took years to be produced, the original script is from 1984.
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... the earliest release dates is January 1990, plus it takes approx a year to make a movie and actually if you look at the copyright at the end it shows it was finished in 1989... plus it took years to be produced, the original script is from 1984.
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Thank you, jox-3 for a very informative answer. I have been watching and listing a lot of eighties movies and there is a "feel " to them that was evident in "I Come in Peace".
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Having just watched this after many years I was thinking about its 80s look and feel.
To expand on what others have said, even despite the fact that I feel "80s movies" (and music incidentally) to be '82-'85...maybe '86, I think it may still sorta qualify.
As noted, it's earliest release date was Jan '90.
Also as noted it takes quite a while to make a film.
The film is set during Christmas but it really doesn't figure into the plot or scenes in any way. I doubt they bothered to dress the sets with minor background Christmas decorations just because. Therefore one may assume it was filmed when the city was indeed decorated for Christmas.
There's no way principle photography was done only a month before release so it's safe to assume it was filmed between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1988.
I'd guess Jan Hammer did his score during early to mid '89, likely using some of his Yamaha synths he used so often in the mid 80s (the DX7II probably) and/or the Kawai K5 (made in 1987), as the synth score sounds like FM or additive synthesis characteristic of those synths (the metallic and bell/glassy sounds).
So, depending on how you judge a movie to be an "80s movie", it could very well fall under that designation.
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Great chain of thought, machfront1.
I've come to the conclusion that any movies falling within the label "eighties" has a release date from 1981 through 1990. The logic being that many movies released during 1980 and 1981 almost always reminds me of a seventies movie just as anything I've watched released during the year 2000 has a definite "nineties" feel to it.
It's amazing how each decade has a signature look and feel that is hard to deny. Almost like it takes a couple of years for the new decade's movies to solidify it's character.
Even the casts from the release dates are from the same pool of actors/actresses. Sure there are some performers who survive decade to decade but many just fade away and a new crop comes in.
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Having just watched this after many years I was thinking about its 80s look and feel.
To expand on what others have said, even despite the fact that I feel "80s movies" (and music incidentally) to be '82-'85...maybe '86, I think it may still sorta qualify.
As noted, it's earliest release date was Jan '90.
Also as noted it takes quite a while to make a film.
The film is set during Christmas but it really doesn't figure into the plot or scenes in any way. I doubt they bothered to dress the sets with minor background Christmas decorations just because. Therefore one may assume it was filmed when the city was indeed decorated for Christmas.
There's no way principle photography was done only a month before release so it's safe to assume it was filmed between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1988.
I'd guess Jan Hammer did his score during early to mid '89, likely using some of his Yamaha synths he used so often in the mid 80s (the DX7II probably) and/or the Kawai K5 (made in 1987), as the synth score sounds like FM or additive synthesis characteristic of those synths (the metallic and bell/glassy sounds).
So, depending on how you judge a movie to be an "80s movie", it could very well fall under that designation.
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I came to the conclusion a long time ago there's a lag for movies, music and so on. The writing, recording, editing, production and marketing all take time. What's perhaps a more interesting question is which movies were ahead of their time; that correctly guessed the 'zeitgeist' of the coming decade...
shareYeah, it takes a year or two for the new decade to define itself, so in the beginning pop culture is still rooted in the previous decade. This film here is an 80's film through and through (like how "Home Alone" is similar stylewise to "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles").
shareearly 1989 it was supposedly filmed. 1990 release of course. dolph was still filming punisher till later 1988 from what i am aware.
so technically this one can be considered eighties.
I grew up watching all the Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Snipes, Van Damme, Seagal and Lundgren movies in the 80's and for some reason I missed this one, never actually even heard about it. Just watched it today for my first time and while I was watching it, I wasn't sure of the year it came out until after when I looked it up, I thought it definitely looked like an 80's movie. I really liked it and could tell that I probably would've loved it had I watched it in 1990 when I was 16. Lol
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