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☝️ Pop vs. Box 👇 '85 - '12


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Key

B - box office rank for year
P - current popular ranking for year
🎖️ - first place rank for year
🗽 - most votes for year
🤔 - most obscure

85 The Goonies B7 P2
86 Trashin' - no data
89 Finish Line - no data
94 The Road Killers - no data
96 Bed of Roses B86 P160
96 Flirting with Disaster B101 P173
97 Mimic B80 P83
97 My Brothers War - no data
97 Nightwatch B188 P134
99 Best Laid Plans - no data
99 It's the Rage - no data
00 Hollow Man B31 P32
00 Slow Burn - no data
02 Coastlines - no data
03 Milwaukee, Minnesota - no data
04 Melinda and Melinda 🤔 B176 P298
05 Into the Blue B124 P45
06 The Dead Girl - no data
07 Grindhouse B95 P80
07 In the Valley of Elah B168 P178
07 No Country for Old Men 🎖️🗽B36 P1
07 To Each His Own Cinema - no data
07 American Gangster B19 P15
08 W. B109 P139
08 Milk B90 P109
09 Women in Trouble - no data
10 Jonah Hex B131 P145
10 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger B87 P189
10 Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps B65 P111
10 True Grit B13 P28
12 Men in Black 3 B18 P24

Movies scored - 20
Box sum - 1733
Pop sum - 2159

Box avg rank - 86.65
Pop avg rank - 107.95

BA -PA = -21.30

Box top 20 - 🤠🤠🤠🤠
Pop top 20 - 🎯🎯🎯

Best box - The Goonies (7)
Worst box - Nightwatch (188)
Best pop - No Country for Old Men (1)
Worst pop - Melinda and Melinda (298)

Pop Gainer - Into the Blue (+79)
Pop Loser - Melinda and Melinda (-124)

B+P

Best - The Goonies (9)
Worst - Melinda and Melinda (474)

Pop vs. Box awards

🎖️🗽

It is natural for popular rankings to be higher due to the influx of art house, international and direct to video releases. Popular rankings are taken from IMDb and are fluid.

Scoring b-p

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

Example

True Grit B13 P28 = -15 (avg)

Tally

Excellent (10pts each) = 4
Good (5pts each) = 5
Average (0pts each) = 4
Poor (-5pts each) = 2
Very poor (-10pts each) = 5
Pop top 20 bonus (5pts each) = 3

+40+25-10-50+15

Mr. Brolin's Pop Box library score:

20

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Your system needs some work. Seriously, interpreting it is like trying to drive a remote control car by writing in sand using a toothbrush during a snow storm.

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Ok, I do understand that not everyone can figure this out, so here is an example~

10 True Grit B13 P28

True Grit was released in 2010 and was 13th in box office rank for the year. It is currently the 28th most popular searched film for films released in the year 2010.

This give this film a "score" of -15 which falls in the average range.

The theme of Pop vs. Box is how a film gains or loses popularity with time compared to its original box office showing and other films released in the same year.

Some notable examples ~

The Big Lebowski B89 P3
The Four Seasons B10 P96
Reservoir Dogs B143 P3
The Trial of Billy Jack B3 P77
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams B8 P235
Dazed and Confused B119 P3
The Bible:In the Beginning B1 P70
The Thing B55 P3
Pride and Prejudice B73 P1

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