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☝️ Pop vs. Box 👇 '76 - '95


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Key -

B - box office rank for year
P - popularity rank for year
🤔 - most obscure
* - released posthumously
** - final film appearance

(#/142) - rank amongst 142 actors

Supporting roles included. Canadian Bacon was filmed in 1993 and released in 1995.

76 Find the Lady - no data
80 The Blues Brothers B9 P8
81 Stripes B5 P14
83 National Lampoon's Vacation B9 P4
84 Splash B11 P21
85 Brewster's Millions B20 P85
85 Summer Rental B37 P52
85 Volunteers B48 P109
86 Armed and Dangerous B55 P116
86 Little Shop of Horrors B40 P16
87 Spaceballs B28 P7
87 Planes, Trains and Automobiles B21 P29
88 The Great Outdoors B24 P8
89 Uncle Buck B18 P18
89 Who's Harry Crumb? B81 P86
89 Speed Zone 🤔B129 P171
91 Only the Lonely B60 P84
91 Nothing But Trouble B103 P23
91 Delirious B117 P87
93 Cool Runnings B16 P55
94 Wagons East* B144 P38
95 Canadian Bacon** B250 P136

Movies scored - 22
Box office sum - 1225
Popular sum - 1277

Box avg rank - 55.68
Pop avg rank - 58.04

BA-PA = -2.36 (24/142)

Best box - Stripes (5)
Worst box - Canadian Bacon (250)
Best pop - National Lampoon's Vacation (4)
Worst pop - Speed Zone (171)

Movies in box top 20 - 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞
Movies in pop top 20 - 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

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

Scoring (b-p)

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

Example

Summer Rental B37 P52 = -15 (avg)

Tally

Excellent (10pts each) = 7
Good (5pts each) = 6
Average (0pts each) = 3
Poor (-5pts each) = 2
Very poor (-10pts each) = 3
Pop top 20 bonus (5pts each) = 7

+50,+30,-10,-30,+35

Mr. Candy's pop/box score

95

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Card updated 3/7/24 (Wagons East and Canadian Bacon added)

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