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Galaxy Quest

1999 · directed by Dean Parisot · 102 min
24,539 feet · Prominence
643rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw60

Lifetime worldwide gross $91m, re-releases included; about $180m in 2026 money.

Rank1,884 of 11,051In 199944 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.

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Beloved cult, quoted by Trek fandom.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.4 from 191kWikipedia31k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 667 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 60 praise 80 legacy 58averages 66, placing it at24,539 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

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