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The Blues Brothers

1980 · directed by John Landis · 133 min
25,486 feet · Prominence
353rd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Blues Brothers’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw69

$115m worldwide in 1980 — $461m in today's money.

As released$115mIn 2026 money$461mRank681 of 8,589In 19804 of 75

How Draw works

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

Praise66

Critics 66, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 66.

Critics66 → 33Awards0 → 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.

Legacy75

Judged directly: Mission from God; permanently quoted and homaged.

Verdict75 of 100IMDb7.9 from 228kWikipedia61k views a monthAge46 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 196 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 69 praise 66 legacy 75averages 70, which places it at25,486 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. Top billing: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway.