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Fight Club

1999 · directed by David Fincher · 139 min
26,433 feet · Prominence
175th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

Lifetime worldwide gross $101m, re-releases included; about $200m in 2026 money.

Rank1,729 of 11,051In 199938 of 196

How Draw works

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

Praise75

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics74 baseAwards5 signal → +1 lift

Oscars1 nominated Sound Editing
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.

Legacy86

Judged directly: Fight Club reviewed.

Verdict86 of 100IMDb8.8 from 2.6mWikipedia108k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 55 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 61 praise 75 legacy 86averages 74, placing it at26,433 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

▲ Meat Loaf

In these careers — elevation for this film

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