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☝️ Pop vs. Box 👇 '72 - '11


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Key -

B - box office rank for year
P - popular ranking for year
🎖️ - first place ranking
🗽 - most votes for year
* - director/actor
🤔 - most obscure

72 Napoleon and Samantha - no data
72 Kansas City Bomber - no data
73 Tom Sawyer B158 P97
73 One Little Indian - no data
74 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore B18 P8
76 Taxi Driver 🎖️🗽 B11 P1
76 Echoes of Summer - no data
76 Bugsy Malone B29 P22
76 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane B59 P32
76 Freaky Friday B12 P33
77 Moi, fleur bleue - no data
77 Casotto - no data
77 Candleshoe B88 P67
80 Foxes B76 P67
80 Carny B152 P112
82 O'Hara's Wife - no data
83 Svengali - no data
84 The Hotel New Hampshire B101 P98
84 The Blood of Others - no data
86 Mesmerized - no data
87 Five Corners B177 P223
87 Siesta B194 P217
88 Stealing Home B105 P161
88 The Accused B35 P42
90 Catchfire - no data
91 Silence of the Lambs 🗽 B4 P3
91 Little Man Tate B52 P104
91 Shadows and Fog B142 P133
93 Sommersby B26 P140
94 Maverick B12 P42
94 Neil B41 P84
97 Contact B16 P17
99 Anna and the King B52 P130
02 Dangerous Lives of an Alter Boy B199 P181
02 Panic Room B25 P35
04 A Very Long Engagement B161 P135
05 Flight Plan B20 P98
06 Inside Man B22 P29
07 The Brave One B72 P149
08 Nim's Island B60 P159
11 Carnage B171 P154
11 The Beaver* 🤔B205 P264

Movies scored - 31
Box sum - 2496
Pop sum - 3037

Box avg rank - 80.52
Pop avg rank - 97.97

BA-PA = -17.45

Best box - Silence of the Lambs (4)
Worst box - The Beaver (205)
Best pop - Taxi Driver (1)
Worst pop - The Beaver (264)

Box top 20 - 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Pop top 20 - 📡📡📡📡

Pop Gainer - Tom Sawyer (+61)
Pop Loser - Sommersby (-114)

B+P

Best - Silence of the Lambs (7)
Worst - The Beaver (469)

Pop vs Box awards

🎖️🗽🗽

It is natural for popular rankings to be higher due to the influx of art house, international and straight to video releases. Popular rankings are taken from IMDb and are fluid. Most box office data is taken from The Numbers website (domestic).

Scoring (b-p)

10+ = excellent
9 to -9 = good
-10 to -29= avg
-30 to -49 = poor
-50 and below = very poor

Example

Panic Room B25 P35 = -10 (avg)

Tally

Excellent (10pts each) = 9
Good (5pts each) = 7
Avg (0pts each) = 5
Poor (-5pts each) = 2
Very poor (-10pts each) = 8
Pop top 20 bonus (5pts each) = 4

+90+40-15-80+20

Ms. Foster's pop/box library score:

55

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what?

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How a movie holds up over time.

B is the original box office rank for year, while P is the current popular ranking (off of IMDB)for the year of the movie.

For example...Panic Room was the #25th ranked box office for 2002, today the movie is the #35th most popular movie of 2002.

The scoring part shouldn't be taken too seriously...it really is just about finding out about a stars filmography and coming across movies you might not have heard of.

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hmmm, but still one of the relatively few actors where I'll watch a film just because she is in it.

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For sure.

I put about 5 of these movies on my watch list

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All right, get me the data on Bugsy Malone, then we can talk.

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I have two Bugsys.

Bugsy (91) B28 P63

Bugsy Malone (76) B29 P22 ($2.75m) (using IMDB for box)

"Everyone deserves a second chance."

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Oh okay, it's been updated, that's cool.

What about:

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Carny
The Hotel New Hampshire

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(If it isn't too much trouble.)

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76 The Little Girl... B- P19
80 Carny B- P71
84 Hotel New Hampshire B101 P98
(IMDB)

I use The Numbers for box data, more accurate but less data than IMDB.

IMDB has been wildly off box for a few movies, so I prefer The Numbers.

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1984 was probably a big year for movies, but Hotel New Hampshire deserves a bit better in my opinion.

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A good deal of movies that hit around B100 or so fall off the cliff to 50 or more slots in popularity.

So a gain of +3 to 98 shouldn't be seen as a loser. Just that it's still obscure.

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Well I don't think I rated it very highly in the 80s. It's just recently I've come to realize it was much better than I thought before.

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I'll check that one out thanks.

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Card updated 6/5/23

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Card updated 6/1/24

(Box data found on more films)

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