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« Reply #450 on: March 16, 2011, 10:16:40 am » |
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Going to see Suckerpunch.
Yes, I know it's crass commercialization. Yes, I know it's going to lead to no end of asshattery at conventions.
I don't care.
It has a gigantic samurai with a minigun (WTF?), enormous biplane bombers, zeppelins (The lead shoots one down. Let me say that again: She SHOOTS DOWN A ZEPPELIN.), a dragon for no apparent reason, and no end of WWI-ish scenery/behavior.
And, you know, that's all I really want in a movie.
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« Reply #451 on: March 17, 2011, 01:06:01 am » |
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Going to see Suckerpunch.
Yes, I know it's crass commercialization. Yes, I know it's going to lead to no end of asshattery at conventions.
I don't care.
It has a gigantic samurai with a minigun (WTF?), enormous biplane bombers, zeppelins (The lead shoots one down. Let me say that again: She SHOOTS DOWN A ZEPPELIN.), a dragon for no apparent reason, and no end of WWI-ish scenery/behavior.
And, you know, that's all I really want in a movie.
I agree, it might have to be a guilty pleasure of mine to watch all that, purely for the aesthetics! The trailer demonstrates that the acting skills are right up there with Hawk the Slayer, but again, that's not why I'm going. |
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« Reply #452 on: March 17, 2011, 02:48:41 am » |
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Crass commercialisation? surely not! Just looks like a damn good scifi romp to me, I've been looking forward to it for almost two years (bloody protracted promotional teasing  ) |
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« Reply #453 on: March 17, 2011, 10:21:10 am » |
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Have you seen the Sucker Punch inspired animated short? A better film than the trailer leads me to expect of the feature, in so many ways.
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« Reply #454 on: March 18, 2011, 06:23:16 am » |
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Here it is a list of movies that are steampunk or have prominent steamy elements in them, please keep suggesting more and the list is always growing. List A-L: 20,000 leages under the sea (1916)
20,000 leages under the sea (1954)
20,000 leages under the sea (1985)
20,000 leages under the sea (1997)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
Arcadia of my Youth (1982)
Around the world in 80 days (2004)
Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
The African Queen (1951)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Black Cat White Cat (1998)
Brazil (1985)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)[French]
Brothers grimm (2005)
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Casshern (2004)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
City of Ember (2008)
The City of Lost Children (1995)[French]
Chitty-chitty Bang-Bang (1968)
Coraline (2009)
Cronos (1993)
Dark City (1998)
Delicatessen (1981)[French]
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1957)[Czech]
The Fall (2006)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
First men on the moon (1964)
Five Weeks In A Balloon (1962)
Franklyn (2008)
From Hell (2001)
Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
The Hindenberg (1975)
Howl's Moving castle (2004)
Igor (2008)
The Illusionist (2006)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Jack Of All Trades (2000)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
Labyrinth (1963)
Labyrinth (1986)
League of Extraodinary Gentlemen (2003)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
The Lost World (1925)
List M-Z: Mary Poppins (1964)
Mary Reilly (1996)
Master of the World (1961)
Mirror Mask (2005)
The Mysterious Geographical Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)
Metropolis (1927)[German]
Metropolis (2001)
Mouse Hunt (1997)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Neverwhere (1996)
Perfect creature (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
Professor Dantes and the Severin Conundrum (2008)
Prometheus Triumphant: A Fugue in the Key of Flesh (2009)
Queen Emeraldis (1998)
Return to Oz (1985)
Robot Carnival (1987)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Stardust (2007)
Steamboy (2004)
Series of unfortunate events (2004)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Time After Time (1979)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Time Machine (2002)
Tinman (2007)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Van Hellsing (2004)
Vidocq (2001)
Voyagers! (1982)
Wild Wild West (1999)
The Yellow Submarine (1968)
Young Einstein (1988)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Zeppelin (1971)
Zulu (1964)
If you disagree with any of the movies being on the list feel free to post why. Ladies & Gentlemen, grab your raygun and pop some popcorn... At the Mountains of Madness --Goby-- League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was depressingly not like the comic series  |
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« Reply #455 on: March 28, 2011, 08:12:50 pm » |
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Guten Tag,
Being that I am new to the forum, I thought I would throw a couple of movies into the ring. Oh, if I repeated any of these, well, life goes on...Julius
Shadow of the vampire(2000)- John Malkovich
High Road to China (1983)- Tom Selleck
The Name of the Rose (1986) Sean Connery
Das Boot (1981)- Jürgen Prochnow
Porco Rosso (1992)- Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)-Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)- Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
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« Reply #456 on: March 28, 2011, 08:15:05 pm » |
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Would you perhaps explain why you include movies like Shadow of the Vampire and Das Boot?
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« Reply #457 on: March 28, 2011, 09:02:58 pm » |
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Would you perhaps explain why you include movies like Shadow of the Vampire and Das Boot?
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« Reply #458 on: March 28, 2011, 09:12:30 pm » |
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Would you perhaps explain why you include movies like Shadow of the Vampire and Das Boot?
'Tis a losing battle, dear Atterton. Perhaps this thread will cause you less frustration. 'Shadow Of The Vampire' is set in 1921 so definitely 'post-Victorian'. But it does have lots of lovely wood and brass in it?  'Da Boot' has.....erm,.....nope. Stumped. Jolly good film though. |
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« Reply #459 on: March 28, 2011, 09:29:28 pm » |
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Well, Das Boot does have a submarine, I suppose...  There are "steampunk" films ( Steamboy or Wild Wild West), "steampunk freindly" (the Harry Potter films) films and "steampunk-touched" (the recent Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes) films... interchanging them is a common and very understandable misstep. |
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« Reply #460 on: April 13, 2011, 09:37:54 pm » |
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I think that even before I found out about steampunk. I'd watched or bought nearly all of the films listed, however some do seem to have a loose connection.
Planning on watching sucker punch, cann't help it I saw the large samurai with the gatling gun and that was it for me. Fan of both steampunk and medieval japanese history.
Q: I thought the gun was a gatling rather than a mini just wondering if I was mistaken on this
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« Reply #461 on: April 19, 2011, 08:00:27 am » |
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I haven't got a clue what this show is all about, but the intro looks Steampunk.
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« Reply #462 on: April 19, 2011, 09:23:49 pm » |
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I can´t see the clip, but the TV-series is based on a Fantasy book series.
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« Reply #464 on: April 20, 2011, 02:55:13 am » |
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...But that opening, with the rising castlescapes, is sooooo coggy and mechanico erotic! Winter is Coming, dude! |
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« Reply #465 on: April 20, 2011, 03:00:06 am » |
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...But that opening, with the rising castlescapes, is sooooo coggy and mechanico erotic! Winter is Coming, dude! Regardless it is not Steampunk. I watched the first Episode Sunday night on HBO and it is a great series, but it is still High Fantasy. |
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« Reply #466 on: April 20, 2011, 03:14:17 am » |
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Yeah, definitely NOT steampunk...Tolkien with sex and violence - graphic sex and violence. Ok this is a true spoiler...a sample from A Dance with Dragons |
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« Reply #467 on: April 20, 2011, 07:05:26 am » |
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Darn, the intro was so promessing. @the Squire: I love sax and violins. |
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« Reply #468 on: April 23, 2011, 06:54:55 pm » |
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Has Metropolis been mentioned yet?  It's an absolutely brilliant German Expressionist film made in 1927. It's one of my favorite movies, it's astounding. And speaking of German Expressionism, could The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari count? |
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« Reply #469 on: April 24, 2011, 02:37:32 pm » |
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Yeah, definitely NOT steampunk...Tolkien with sex and violence - graphic sex and violence. Ok this is a true spoiler...a sample from A Dance with Dragons Despite the fantasy veneer (and thus the automated response of the Tolkien name-drop) it has much more in common, thematically, with Frank Herbert's Dune books. |
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« Reply #470 on: April 24, 2011, 04:43:04 pm » |
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know it's not a Steampunk movie but this contraption is really neat
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« Reply #471 on: April 28, 2011, 02:32:07 pm » |
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Hmmm, I checked the list and didn't see The Great Race. We might need to add it unless I'm just blind this morning.
How about the 1936 version of HG Wells Things to Come? It certainly qualifies as a victorian view of the future.
King Kong (either version) maybe?
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« Reply #472 on: May 01, 2011, 04:06:58 am » |
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I am going to toss in ATROPHY. We are describing it as Mad Max, meets Wizard of OZ, encased in Steampunk. Check out the webisodes that show a lot of the props that I helped make on our YouTube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/AtrophyTheMovie |
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« Reply #473 on: May 19, 2011, 04:04:54 am » |
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Forgive me if this has been mentioned earlier: May have been a made-for-TV on the SciFi channel but I remembered the name being "Mutant Chronicles". Not the best of movies as far as plot but did incorporate steam driven air ships and rather large gearing for the 'evil' machine buried below.
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« Reply #474 on: May 20, 2011, 08:32:28 am » |
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Though its not out yet, but might as well add: The Clockwork Girl
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