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Mad Max 2

1981 · directed by George Miller · 96 min
25,802 feet · Prominence
283rd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw53

$25m worldwide in 1981 — $89m in today's money.

As released$25mIn 2026 money$89mRank2,886 of 8,589In 198130 of 76

How Draw works

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

Praise85

Critics 85, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 85.

Critics85 → 43Awards0 → 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy78

Judged directly: Post-apocalyptic aesthetic endlessly imitated since.

Verdict78 of 100IMDb7.6 from 212kWikipedia24k views a monthAge45 years

Scored beside it · 167 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 53 praise 85 legacy 78averages 72, which places it at25,802 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

Mel Gibson22,479 ft