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The Expendables 2

2012 · directed by Simon West · 103 min
21,790 feet · Prominence
1,778th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw69

$315m worldwide in 2012 — $453m in today's money.

As released$315mIn 2026 money$453mRank700 of 8,589In 201223 of 244

How Draw works

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

Praise60

Critics 60, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 60.

Critics60 → 30Awards0 → 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.

Legacy25

Judged directly: Nostalgia cast-off, forgotten.

Verdict25 of 100IMDb6.6 from 334kWikipedia29k views a monthAge14 years

Scored beside it · 2,240 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 60 legacy 25averages 51, which places it at21,790 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

Sylvester Stallone22,537 ftBruce Willis21,599 ftArnold Schwarzenegger21,588 ft