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Rocky IV

1985 · directed by Sylvester Stallone · 91 min
23,800 feet · Prominence
884th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Rocky IV’ With Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, and Kyle Brandt

How this film scores

Draw78

$300m worldwide in 1985 — $922m in today's money.

As released$300mIn 2026 money$922mRank225 of 8,589In 19852 of 109

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

Critics 39, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 39.

Critics39 → 20Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. 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 · 466 of 3,430 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, which places it at23,800 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 Stallone23,282 ft