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Stop Making Sense

1984
25,470 feet · Prominence
355th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw47

$12m worldwide in 1984 — $40m in today's money.

As released$12mIn 2026 money$40mRank4,181 of 8,589In 198452 of 93

How Draw works

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

Praise97

Critics 97, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 97.

Critics97 → 49Awards0 → 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy68

Judged directly: Greatest concert film; the big suit.

Verdict68 of 100IMDb8.7 from 24kWikipedia22k views a monthAge42 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 329 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 47 praise 97 legacy 68averages 71, which places it at25,470 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.