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Rocky IV

1985 · directed by Sylvester Stallone · 91 min
23,443 feet · Prominence
1,160th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw78

Lifetime worldwide gross $300m, re-releases included; about $922m in 2026 money.

Rank231 of 11,051In 19852 of 123

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise39

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics39 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Drago, I must break you, endlessly memed.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb6.9 from 243kWikipedia34k views a monthAge41 years

Scored beside it · 536 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 78 praise 39 legacy 62averages 60, placing it at23,443 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Sylvester Stallone20,232 ftDolph Lundgren19,364 ftCarl Weathers18,574 ftTalia Shire18,250 ftBurt Young18,091 ftJames Brown17,737 ft