Should be titled "3 Steampunk movies and 7 fillers because we couldn't think of 10 and we left out the best steampunk movie in the honourable mentions because we have no clue what 'steampunk' means."
They haven't got a clue here. There are some steampunk movies and a whole bunch of Diselpunk thrown in.... Like metropolis is Diselpunk. It's very easy Happy go lucky Victorian era equals Steampunk and depressing dirty and grimy WW1 era is diselpunk. There is Decopunk and Atompunk as well....
According to Wikipedia, Steampunk is a retrofuturistic sub-genre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
I'm not going to check to see if anyone else pointed this out, but many in this list are examples of Dieselpunk, not Steampunk. Metropolis is a shining example of Dieselpunk. You can tell by it's heavy use of Art Deco and Technology as envisioned by the 20s/30s/40s. Another good example is Things to Come, though elements of Steampunk emerge during the post-war society, a Dieselpunk society forces them into surrendering, the Ending Society is more Rocketpunk. You also used footage of Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow. This movie borrows heavily from the sci fi adventure serials of the 30s and thus is planted firmly in the Dieselpunk genre. I see too many times people confusing Steampunk with Dieselpunk. Steampunk usually ends near World War 1 era where technology and aesthetics are concerned , while Dieselpunk emerges during the 20s. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec and City of Lost Children are excellent examples of Steampunk, Lost Children you mentioned. The Mutant Chronicles is good example of Late Steampunk as it uses World War 1 aesthetics. I'm just pointing the differences out to you, I respect Watch Mojo, but the mistakes are real with this one. Steampunk in it's most simplest of Definitions is a Victorian Aesthetic while Diesel Punk has that Art Deco 30s aesthetic. Dieselpunk is Bioshock, Steampunk is Bioshock Infinite.
LOL, steampunk existed as a genre way before Dieselpunk was even a word, you are quibbling over meaningless timing. So silly to be so vehement about meaningless semantics
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Well Verne and Wells wouldn't have thought of their work as Steampunk, its only Steam Punk in retrospect being deliberately archaic to cyberpunk. The term Science Fiction wasn't even coined, Speculative Fiction was their best attempt at classifying it.
A few of these aren't Steampunk though... movies like Metropolis would be considered Cyberpunk if you were to categorize them by the "-punk" genre. Others would be considered Dieselpunk... I wish Mojo would do some research into the differences, but eh what can I do?
"high tech and low life" is the credo of cyberpunk, and it typically deals with a dystopian future; something that is a prevalent theme in Metropolis. If anything, Metropolis is the grandfather of cyberpunk.
The movie 9 is one of the greatest movies ever made, it was in their "honorable mentions" section of this video. If you've never seen it, i suggest watching it. It's a masterpiece, highly underrated. The CGI is quite good for an 11 year old movie as well... voice acting is also spot on.
No... Metropolis is as far from Steampunk as you can get. It's, if anything, the very first science fiction film... like the original comment says: it's straight up fuckin' sci-fi... no Steampunk to it. Then again, they opened it with footage of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which is Dieselpunk and not Steampunk... so I'm not expecting a lot of accuracy with these cats.
Don't get me wrong, I love Howl's Moving Castle, but I feel like Castle in The Sky had much more steampunk related themes--Ex. characters being inventors/explorers, the large zeppelins, the trains, the mining town, the weapons used, the sky pirates, and Laputa as a whole. All Howl really had was the castle.
Watched _Howl's Moving Castle_ last week-end. Did not understand it much. Too many unanswered questions like "why all of a sudden Sophie looks young, then looks old again?"
Luke Pettis Not really. It can be set in the 18th, 19th or 20th Century, but it also can be set in the present day or even in the future, as long as it has steam tech and sci-fi elements.
I think they were looking for good movies. Though "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is actually more relevant to Steam Punk than most of the movies on their list, it wasn't well received.
@@jackkemp7256 If they were looking for good movies why include Sky Captain? It was practically unwatchable. As flawed as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was, it was far more watchable than Sky Captain.
I agree...although I like the style and vision in that movie.... it would be during the "first industrial revolution"...most of the steam happened during the second...so it is pre-steam...while still early Victorian
When I saw the title, I thought, "I hope City of Lost Children is on there." It was, then I was pleasantly surprised to see Hugo and Howl's Moving Castle on the list as well. And even an honorable mention to City of Ember, which I think is kind of underrated.
I freaking love steam punk as an aesthetics and style i find it really beatiful and all,so even if a movie is not that good you can always admire the general work they did.Hugo was a really good and also beautiful movie as well i loved it but also the others on that list make a great job for that style.
suck part if you look into steam punk, most of these are not steam punk. steam punk is a mix of clockwork and steam based tech with an industrial back from such as the Victorian period. hugo city of lost children are good examples of these. steamboy is another great example. the rest don't fit imo.
Azura Moonstar Steampunk doesn't necessarily need to be set in the Victorian Era (which is just in England). It can be set anywhere in the 18th, 19th or 20th Century, or even in the future.
***** victorian ere isn;t just in England :) And that's the bulk of what steampunk is. Boston has a huge following of steampunk and most of the outfits (all rather) are Victorian inspired/steam clockwork things. like the top hat and goggle look. the reason is, is steam based machinery was big in that time period with steam locomotives and other industrial machinery. using coal as a heat source
And let's not forget the number one "Steampunk" movie on the list isn't even Steampunk... it's straight up sci-fi. It's probably closer to CYBERPUNK than Steampunk, and I wouldn't even consider Metropolis to be Cyberpunk.
SeanStrife it isn't, steam boy is better rep of steampunk. As is hugo. to others: Look up rush clock work angles, it was their steampunk album and tour.
Fictionally speaking, dieselpunk has to be a sub genre of steampunk; technically speaking, they were competing technologies, like betamax and vhs, playstation and xbox, bluray and hd. So, anything with late 19th century through WWII style tech falls within the steampunk genre, whether steam, diesel, gasoline, coal or hydrogen powered -- as long as it generates some kind of smoke.
I would say they're simply sci-fi, set in a future that hasn't happened yet. Both Atom Punk and Dieselpunk are set in the past or alternate past of certain eras 1920s to 50s.
Once I saw the title of this video I couldn’t click it fast enough. Steampunk is my entire aesthetic and has been for years (my fiancé and I’s wedding is going to be steampunk themed as well, I’m so excited!) I loved seeing movies on here that I didn’t know existed and I will surely add them to my list, as well as seeing ones that I know and love. That being said, it kinda breaks my heart that Wild Wild West got screen time but not even mentioned by name on here. Also not seeing the movies Stardust & The Three Musketeers makes me sad as well. They are incredible and deserve a shoutout! ⚙️
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the majority aren't even 'steampunk'. Dieselpunk, gaslamp fantasy, and atompunk, and good films, yes, but a lot simply has nothing to do with steampunk.
Something you missed about Baron Munchhausen is that he is a well known figure in German literature and his most prominent characteristic is that he makes up all his adventures. Knowing that will most likely put a whole different twist to the movie.
1. Brazil 2. City of Lost Children 3. 20,000 Leagues 4. Baron Munchausen 5. Just the machine from Time Machine 6. Steamboy 7. Hugo 8 Begrudgingly: League of Extraordinary Gents 9 just the hardware Wild, Wild West 10 Lots of bits of Wallace and Gromit
The basic definition of steampunk, as I understand it, is that the work in question must be set in Earth's past (albeit an alternate one), and involve technology that did not exist at the time (and, in many cases, still doesn't). Considering that several of these either take place in the future (Things To Come, Treasure Planet, Metropolis), another world entirely (Howl's Moving Castle), or don't actually involve anything technological at all (Adventures of Baron Munchausen), I'd say you might want to rethink it a bit. There are lots of things which have been stylistic influences on steampunk (or the other way 'round); that doesn't mean that all of them ARE steampunk.
Actually, quite a few steampunk stories are set in a post-apocalyptic future. Steampunk in general depicts how Victorians would think of the future, so a victorian aesthetic and clockwork and steam-based inventions combined to form either an alternate reality, or an imagining of a future where humans have been forced to devolve back to a victorian era way of life. Although you are right that watchmojo "might want to rethink it a bit" (as many people are saying, most of these examples are dieselpunk), they should do this for different reasons than those which you put forth.
For similar reasons, I'd remove Metropolis and 20k Leagues from this list, they don't play in the relative past, considering their release date. From their point of view, they're simply futuristic sci-fi. And I'd say more than "set in the past", Steam/Dieselpunk is about "upgrading" outdated technology, assuming it previailed or had received advancements it never could in the real world, which is usually unrealistic, and thus requires suspense of disbelief in a backwards direction (while sci-fi requires forward suspense of disbelief, to accept that this or that development could come from the further development of today's technology)
20 000 Leagues under the Sea is not (and never was) futuristic... It played in the past, in the 1860's to be exact (or the present if you take the book's publishing date as a reference). And it is quite exactly Steampunk, since it is using steam-engine-era technology to create something impossible* to make with that technology (a submarine). * well, technically, a nuclear submarine uses steam as a power vector, the main difference (to keep it short and simple) being the nature of the fuel: coal vs. uranium...
Ok, my bad, I was rather talking about/thinking of the book, while the movie obviously was made in an era when steam technology could already be considered outdated. Even Wikipedia agrees that the movie is a precursor to Steampunk. It does get blurry though for adaptions of much earlier material that don't update the fictional tech.
I saw it in the beginning and don't know if it is actually on the list yet, but Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow isn't steampunk it's more decopunk or dieselpunk.
Came here to the comments to put up league of extraordinary gentlemen. Glad to see other people have too. It fits the definition much closer than most of these movies and is a great one also.
If you like steampunk, you should check Karel Zeman's movies: The Deadly Invention (1958) or his version of The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962). Also another czech filmmaker Oldrich Lipsky has few steampunk related movies: Adele's Dinner (1978) and The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981). These two are also great comedies.
I absolutely love *The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen*...but I think putting it on a steampunk film list was something of a stretch. *Brazil* would've been a better choice.
I agree in general with your list, but "The Amazing World of Jules Verne" (1959) and "Master of the World" (1961) deserve honorable mentions, at the least.
Oh my god, you are awesome. I have been been trying to remember the name of this movie for almost nine years. I rented it from a local video store back when it first came out and I loved it. Thank you, so much.
I love the steampunk genre (not cosplay) , particularly the machinery i always think our society would be like this today without the evolution of computers
Metropolis and Things to come are science fiction films with stories set in the future. Steampunk usually involves anachronism. A submarine capable of long journeys at a time when no such craft existed (Twenty thousand leagues under the sea ) or space travel in the 19th century (First men in the Moon). I think you might want to reevaluate some of your choices.
Some good picks, love HUGO and City of Ember, thought I'd not call them "the best", but that comes down to individual opinions and taste, I assume. Whileenjoyable
I can deal with inclusion of the small related genres like Dieselpunk. However including old movies using then modern and futuristic styles is just silly. Here's my list. Because they muddled it up anyways, my list is of all retropunk, though still mostly Steampunk. 10. Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow 9. The Great Mouse Detective 8. Tai Chi Zero (same) 7. 9 (same) 6. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (same) 5. Metropolis (2001) 4. Sleepy Hollow 3. Dark City 2. The Prestige 1. Castle in The Sky Honorable Mentions Howl's Moving Castle (same) City of Lost Children (same) Hugo (same) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (same)
I'm actually kind of dissapointed Steamboy is not on the main list. Specially because it's whole idea is about Steampunk. However, I'm truly happy that Atlantis and Treasure Planet are in. Well, can't have it all. Good video.
Wayne H - I honestly don't think that anything written in the Victorian era can qualify as steam punk. It's like calling the Parthenon an example of neoGrecian architecture. It's the original, what the modern iteration is based on.
Wayne H - Thank you. Unfortunately by that rule nothing written by H.G.Wells or Jules Vern would qualify. It's kind of a shame because I grew up on those guys, but on the other hand there are plenty of other lists that they could potentially be on. Top 10 early science fiction writers, etc. By the way, if you really dig SP you should check out a book called The Warlord of the Air by Michael Moorcock. Arguably the first steam punk story, it was steam punk before the term was invented. If you like that he wrote two more; The Land Leviathan, and The Steel Tsar. ENJOY!
@@ericisprobablyfullofshit7797 I don't think the era of the author has anything to do with the genre of the film adaptation... that is up to the director. I personally would love to see a steampunk (or diesel punk) version of War of the Worlds
I was half-expecting LXG to make the list! I know, I know it's a terrible film - but you cannot deny it's definitely stylish and just oozing with traditional steampunk imagery :)
Just bear in mind that the list here has a mix of Steampunk, Clockpunk, and Dieselpunk. It may be a bit pedantic, but in literary terms, there are distinct differences. :)
Always happy when watchmojo isn't so USA-centric. The swedish animated film "Resan till Melonia" could've sorta made it into this list, it's very similar to "The island of lost children" but it's animated and for kids.
Boo Mojo. Fail. 3/4 of these movies are Dieselpunk. Where is "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)", "Sherlock Holmes (2009)", "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)", "The Prestige (2006)", "Van Helsing (2004)", "Forbidden Kingdom (2014)", "Golden Compass (2007)", "Around The World In 80 Days (2004)", "Hellboy (2002)" and "Hellboy 2 (2008)"?
Steampunk is a genre that has many subdivisions so is not really worth nitpicking but most of those aren’t really steampunk At the begging shows both diesel and cadlepunk 10) silkpunk 9) just fantasy 8) because it is a speculation of the future it’s more sci-fi / alternative history ( Julio Verne came first ) 7) it does have some SP elements but there’s also Dieselpunk and gaslightpunk because of the magic 6) I guess it can be 5) definitely 4) yes/ biopunk 3) clockpunk 2) gaslightpunk again Honorable mentions: steamboy here, really ? 9 and unfortunate events aren’t also 1) decopunk/ sci-fi
Van Helsing? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha complete shitfest
I agree with half the listed movies, but 'Golden compass' was not even mentioned, by far one of the best examples of a steampunk movie ever, and let us not forget Chitty Chitty bang bang as well
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is one of my favorite movie, but I really don't think that one is steampunk.... surely on moon, somekinda clockworking-robot chicken(with 3 heads) came out, but except that? nothing likely...
I liked Mutant Chronicles starring Thomas Jane, it had a different spin on the zombie mutant plot inside a steampunk world. Mix in some ninjas, quasi religion, steam powered rocket ships, cool retro guns, and leather dusters wardrobe appropriate for the era. One of my favorite lines comes up at the climax of the movie, one of the characters shouts "Which hole?" and Thomas Jane replies back "Any hole!". That was pretty funny! Should I drop the mic? I feel like I should, but will want to pick it up. But I want to drop it. But will probably pick it up...maybe I'll just hold onto it. It looks really expensive, I don't want to damage the mic. But I kinda want to...
Someone couldn't sort their Punks. The number 1 entry is really Deiselpunk. A couple of entries (Such as Baron Munschhausen) are Clockpunk. You can look it up on TVTropes, it'll tell you all about it. :D