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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1985 · directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie · 107 min
23,918 feet · Prominence
913rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw55

Lifetime worldwide gross $36m, re-releases included; about $111m in 2026 money.

Rank2,731 of 11,051In 198527 of 123

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.

Critics76 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Two men enter; Tina Turner iconography.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb6.2 from 161kWikipedia24k views a monthAge41 years

Scored beside it · 826 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 55 praise 76 legacy 55averages 62, placing it at23,918 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

▲ Tina Turner▲ Bruce Spence▲ Helen Buday

In these careers — elevation for this film

Mel Gibson19,435 ftTina Turner18,411 ftHelen Buday18,019 ftBruce Spence17,896 ft