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Does anybody have any good steampunk movie recs? Aside from the 1950s Rod Taylor The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth (in which Pat Boone got billing over James Mason), At the Earth's Core, with the dashing Doug McClure. I'd include Valley of Gwangi, but not so much with the steam, more just punk. But along those lines. No giant apes, though.
I'm up for anime, too-- in the vein of Porco Rosso, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.
Anybody?
The City of Lost Children?
For anime, Steamboy
Aha. I think we actually have City of Lost Children on dvd. In a box, somewhere. I'll check Netflix instant watch for both of those, thanks!
The Prestige probably counts. I haven't seen Hugo but the trailer seems to have some steampunkish elements to it?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was not a great movie but the sets were Steam Punky. Wild Wild West is in the same catagory. Hugo has some some elements of it.
No on Gentlemen and WWW--I've seen both--well, half of each, and that was a gracious sufficiency, thanks.
Hugo is my gold standard right now. I need more Hugos! The Prestige and The Illusionist, Phantom (not Steampunk, but Victorian) don't quite hit the mark.
Time Bandits? Or am I misremembering?
Oddly enough, Time Bandits was just what I was about to suggest.
The RJD Sherlock Holmes movies were quasi-Steampunk. But City of Lost Children is pretty much THE good Steampunk movie.
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Nope. There's nothing else that really comes to my mind as Steampunk instead of Victorian-ish.
What I really want is the folks who make Warehouse 13 to actually carry out their fliration with the idea to do an HG Wells (who in the series is a woman played by Jaime Murray [link] spin-off, which would be chockful of steampunkish goodness. We got a quick peak at that during her origin-story episode, which had her partnered with Gareth David-Lloyd, which certainly didn't hurt.