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 Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:34 pm
How many steampunk movies do you know about? I know of 3 - The Golden Compass, Van Helsing and Sleepy Hollow. I know there are more. List all the ones you know bout, discuss your favorite. Also videogames if you feel upto it
and...go :3
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:33 pm
I'm assuming we're only counting media that could actually be labeled steampunk, and not things that simply "have a couple of sparse steampunk elements somewhere in them." Movies: 1. Wild Wild West (the one with Will Smith) 2. City of Lost Children3. Vidocq4. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (maybe) 5. The Prestige (maybe) 6. Hellboy 1 and 2 (probably, even if in aesthetics/anachronism only) There is a Wikipedia category with an extensive list of possible movies (some of which are likely to be mislabeled) Video games: 1. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends2. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura3. On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Penny Arcade game) 4. Skies of Arcadia5. Thief (series) 6. Edge of Twilight (currently unreleased) 7. Damnation (currently unreleased) 8. Final Fantasy VIThere is also a very short Wikipedia category for these, too. Before anyone suggests them, though, the following are NOT steampunk but are commonly mistaken as such: BioShockFallout 3 and other Fallout games Any Final Fantasy game with a predominant high fantasy or magic theme even if it has airships and machines
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:03 pm
No
Around the world in 80 days on the list?
and what about Final Fantasy XII?
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:59 am
Amaranth_DMXRemix No Around the world in 80 days on the list? and what about Final Fantasy XII? The wikipedia category page for "steampunk movies" inlcudes Around the World in 80 days, but I was just listing ones I know of personally. Also, I doubt Final Fantasy XII is steampunk. Again, I was just listing games I know of personally, and I haven't played XII, but what I've seen and read about it, it's no more steampunk than FFIX, meaning absolutely no steampunk whatsoever, and something to do with magicite-based Mist just like what powered the airships in IX. There really aren't very many steampunk based video games, granted there ARE a lot more than most people are aware of, even when you take into consideration that so many games don't count and get mislabeled as steampunk just because they have an airship or someone with a top hat and monocle....
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:39 am
Quote: it's no more steampunk than FFIX, meaning absolutely no steampunk whatsoever, and something to do with magicite-based Mist just like what powered the airships in IX. i don't think FF IX can be excluded, if you remember a lot of machines in lindblum are steam-powered and also the Hildegarde III is steam-powered, also the aestetic if it's not fully steampunk is reminescent of it. But this is just my opinion.. mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:08 am
Xeigrich I'm assuming we're only counting media that could actually be labeled steampunk, and not things that simply "have a couple of sparse steampunk elements somewhere in them." Movies: 1. Wild Wild West (the one with Will Smith) 2. City of Lost Children3. Vidocq4. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (maybe) 5. The Prestige (maybe) 6. Hellboy 1 and 2 (probably, even if in aesthetics/anachronism only) There is a Wikipedia category with an extensive list of possible movies (some of which are likely to be mislabeled) Video games: 1. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends2. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura3. On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Penny Arcade game) 4. Skies of Arcadia5. Thief (series) 6. Edge of Twilight (currently unreleased) 7. Damnation (currently unreleased) 8. Final Fantasy VIThere is also a very short Wikipedia category for these, too. Before anyone suggests them, though, the following are NOT steampunk but are commonly mistaken as such: BioShockFallout 3 and other Fallout games Any Final Fantasy game with a predominant high fantasy or magic theme even if it has airships and machines they have high steampunk elements. nothing listed there is "true steampunk" Atlantis, the disney movie is very good, and very steamy. Also, the movie Labyrinth (NOT PAN'S LABYRINTH) Definitely has some steam elements to it, though it's more rennaisance steam than victorian.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:19 am
XII I see it as- Flying Airships << VERY different technology in.... grounded era?
Sorry but if you look at the town in the beginning it looks very third world. Of course I've only gotten through 13% of the game...
This also brought X and X-2, Majorly the Machine Faction. Spira seems very- well in the stone age- or no-air-conditioning stage of technology.
I'm not saying these are Steampunk games-
But have some steamy-ness to it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:13 pm
Stardust (which isn't really steampunk except for a teensy minute-long segment at the beginning and this epic part with sky pirates and dirigibles heart )
The golden compass
Howl's Moving Castle
80 Days
I'm pretty new to the subject of steampunk. So of course, my examples may be a little biased <<
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:36 pm
Terry Gilliam's Brazil deserves a mention, if only for the computers. Gilliam's Time Bandits certainly has a niche in the steampunk canon as well. Steamboyand Howl's Moving Castle are excellent animated features, the former being pure steampunk, the latter pure fantasy but heavy on steamy elements.
You may even enjoy Fritz Lang's Metropolis (this 1927 silent classic has enormous appeal to most steamers). Try to find a copy with Kronos Quartet's BRILLIANT original score, to maximize your steampunk experience.
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:14 am
No Such Machine Terry Gilliam's Brazil deserves a mention, if only for the computers. Gilliam's Time Bandits certainly has a niche in the steampunk canon as well. Steamboyand Howl's Moving Castle are excellent animated features, the former being pure steampunk, the latter pure fantasy but heavy on steamy elements. You may even enjoy Fritz Lang's Metropolis (this 1927 silent classic has enormous appeal to most steamers). Try to find a copy with Kronos Quartet's original score, to maximize your steampunk experience. TIME BANDITS! wheee!
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:41 am
Everyone forgets about Final Fantasy V. I know it isn't as popular as VI, but V was steampunk. Your ship that you have (Spoilers: the air crystal shatters.) that you can actually control in open ocean is a steamship. (It's also a dungeon that you must fight through before you get it) It was built by Cid before you get your clockwork airship. ...It also marks the first appearance of Gilgamesh, the first really engaging villain in the FF series.
Also, loved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Captain Nemo!) and Stardust (wish they'd explored the world a bit more... what the heck were Storm Marshals?)
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:24 am
I've noticed a very steampunk-without-trying-to-be-steampunk feel to David Lynch's The Elephant Man (a proto-steampunk film, if you will indulge me). It certainly captures both the grace and the grime of industrialized Victorian England.
Eraserhead likewise appeals to the same aesthetic that drew me into the world of steam in the first place. But please don't think I'm calling it a steampunk movie. I'll let you be the judge.
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:23 pm
I'm suprised noone has mentioned Time Machine (one made in 2000s) though it only has a limited steampunk character throughout the movie sadly, since it eventually goes all sci-fi ish.
As for games, again not true steampunk, but Banjo Kazooie games tend to have quite a few characteristics in my humble opinion.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:46 am
May I suggest the 1961 film adaptation of Verne's Master of the World starring Vincent Price (as basically Captain Nemo in a huge airship instead of a submarine) and a young, smooth-cheeked Charles Bronson. This movie is just about as steampunk as it gets, if I may be so bold.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:01 am
TINSTAAFL I'm suprised noone has mentioned Time Machine (one made in 2000s) though it only has a limited steampunk character throughout the movie sadly, since it eventually goes all sci-fi ish. I actually like the 1960 version better, though the pacing is slower than today's standard. The titular apparatus itself is a steampunk icon. While I'm thinking about it and while we're on the subject, did anyone see Journey to the Center of the Earth? I only saw the trailers and they didn't feel steamy at all. Damn shame, that.
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