Steampunk has been around for decades in prose and comics and crappy cosplay, but has there ever been an actual steampunk movie?

What usually gets marketed as steampunk, especially in the movies, is stuff that references the aesthetic without creating a world in which any of the tech makes sense. There's no alternate history, there's just anomalous engineering with lots of gears and brass fittings and tweed and brown leather. Sepiatone Junkyard Gothic.

Most of this is enjoyable...
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