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The Blues Brothers

1980 · directed by John Landis · 133 min
25,481 feet · Prominence
356th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw69

Lifetime worldwide gross $115m, re-releases included; about $461m in 2026 money.

Rank698 of 11,051In 19804 of 84

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics66 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.

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 · 205 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 69 praise 66 legacy 75averages 70, placing it at25,481 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ John Belushi▲ James Brown▲ Cab Calloway▲ Rick Danko

In these careers — elevation for this film

John Belushi20,516 ftDan Aykroyd19,529 ftCab Calloway17,954 ftJames Brown17,809 ftJohn Candy17,670 ftRick Danko17,665 ftFrank Oz17,660 ftCarrie Fisher17,656 ftPaul Reubens17,652 ftCharles Napier17,635 ft