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☝️ Pop vs. Box 👇 '81 - '12


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Key -

B - box office rank for year
P - current popular rank for year
🎖️ - 1st place ranking for year
🥇 - 1st place popular winner for year
🤔 - most obscure

(#/142) - rank amongst 142 actors
🥉 - top 20 ranking

81 Taps B15 P54
82 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 🎖️ B25 P1
83 Bad Boys B76 P40
84 Crackers B161 P234
84 Racing the Moon B94 P101
85 The Falcon and the Snowman B53 P59
86 At Close Range B141 P71
86 Shanghai Suprise B143 P159
88 Colors B21 P71
88 Judgement in Berlin - no data
89 Casualties of War B56 P47
89 We're No Angels B84 P103
90 State of Grace B154 P69
93 Carlito's Way B41 P29
95 Dead Man Walking B45 P76
97 Loved - no data
97 She's So Lovely B126 P227
97 U-Turn B129 P78
97 The Game B41 P5
97 Hugo Pool - no data
98 Hulryburly 🤔 B185 P262
98 The Thin Red Line B59 P18
99 Sweet and Lowdown B161 P168
00 Up at the Villa - no data
00 Before Night Falls B155 P101
00 The Weight of Water - no data
01 I Am Sam B61 P65
03 Mystic River B53 P5
03 It's All About Love - no data
03 21 Grams 🥇 B119 P47
04 The Assassination of Richard Nixon - no data
05 The Interpreter B32 P4
06 All the King's Men B169 P180
08 Milk B89 P82
10 Fair Game B132 P169
11 The Tree of Life B132 P64
11 This Must Be the Place - no data
12 Americans - (short film)

Movies scored - 29
Box sum - 2722
Pop sum - 2589

Box avg rank - 93.86
Pop avg rank- 89.27

BA-PA = +4.59 (18/142)🥉

Box top 20 - 🏄
Pop top 20 - 🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄

Best box - Taps (15)
Worst box - Hurlyburly (185)
Best pop - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1)
Worst pop - Hurlyburly (262)

Pop gainer - State of Grace (+85)
Pop loser - She's So Lovely (-101)

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 form IMDb and are fluid. Most box office rankings are 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

We're No Angles B84 P103 = -19(avg)

Tally

Excellent (10pts each) = 13
Good (5pts each) = 6
Average (0pts each) = 3
Poor (-5pts each) = 3
Very Poor (-10pts each) = 4
Pop top 20 bonus (5pts each) = 5

+130+30-15-40+25

Mr. Penn's pop/box library score

130 (26/142)

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Not a lot of big hits for this guy.

Not very "box office."

But he keeps getting parts.

PS. I was surprised to see "Carlito's Way" so low. I thought it was a bigger hit.

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He went the artistic route with his career instead of popcorn box office hits.

I am sure he was offered some prime roles that he turned down after Fast Times.

Interesting to see the difference with him and Tom Cruise, both started with Taps.

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