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As filmmakers plan new films involving Buck Rogers and John Carter, I'm curious if they will allow themselves some pulpy, retro-futuristic characters and ideas.
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Have you ever wanted to live inside the retro-futuristic world of a Jules Verne novel?
20,000 Leagues Under Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins.
This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash 2011
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But even as he ratchets up the energy with lilting grooves and retro-futuristic funk, the songs rarely demand complete attention or increased volume.
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The building's interiors were built in a sort of retro-futuristic style, with clean lines, mod lighting and a heavy material palette of substantial stones like marble in the walls that made it look like the inside of a space station from a classic Hollywood sci-fi movie set.
Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012
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Steampunk Tales is distributed exclusively via the iPhone App Store and features the unique Steampunk Tales Reader, which renders the stories with a retro-futuristic Victorian flair never before seen in any eBook reader application.
Another Wonderful App for those elitists Iphone users « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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Today on Offworld we saw a pair of pairs of retro-game inspired footwear, possibly the reigning champ of game-cakes, as these are ones you can actually play, explored the possibility that Taito may be returning to the DS for more retro-futuristic Space Invaders love, and saw more of Sega's upcoming Wii title that parodies retro gaming's finest.
Boing Boing 2009
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The plot of DMV is inspired by diamond heist films of the 1970's, but with an added tinge of the retro-futuristic.
Boing Boing 2009
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Jumpman: beautiful retro-futuristic platformer game -- Boing Boing Offworld
Boing Boing 2009
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Have you ever wanted to live inside the retro-futuristic world of a Jules Verne novel?
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