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Thunderball

1965 · directed by Terence Young · 130 min
24,634 feet · Prominence
613rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw84

Lifetime worldwide gross $141m, re-releases included; about $1.48bn in 2026 money.

Rank69 of 11,051In 19652 of 33

How Draw works

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

Praise76

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics75 baseAwards12 signal → +1 lift

Oscars1 won Visual Effects
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.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Huge Bond hit, less iconic than Goldfinger.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb6.9 from 137kWikipedia43k views a monthAge61 years

Scored beside it · 911 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 84 praise 76 legacy 52averages 71, placing it at24,634 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

▲ Adolfo Celi▲ Claudine Auger▲ Luciana Paluzzi

In these careers — elevation for this film

Sean Connery20,604 ftAdolfo Celi18,351 ftClaudine Auger18,190 ftLuciana Paluzzi18,155 ftSuzy Kendall17,639 ft