{"title":"Best Alien Invasion Movies","theme":"alien invasion","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/alien-invasion","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":30,"listedFilms":21,"frames":2235,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"alien","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":41.13,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00557,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00014,"observedInFrames":72},{"element":"monster","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":15.18,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00302,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0002,"observedInFrames":39},{"element":"tactical vest","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.89,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00479,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00081,"observedInFrames":62},{"element":"armor","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.54,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00332,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0006,"observedInFrames":43},{"element":"smoke","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.28,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00866,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00202,"observedInFrames":112},{"element":"helmet","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.24,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00448,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00106,"observedInFrames":58},{"element":"debris","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.09,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00464,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00113,"observedInFrames":60},{"element":"fire","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.39,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00487,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00144,"observedInFrames":63}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"low_angle","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1325,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0528,"ratio":2.51},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2945,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.51},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"medium","shareOfThemeFrames":0.38,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4818,"ratio":0.79}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.35,"ratio":0.77},{"hue":"blue","share":0.207,"ratio":1.19},{"hue":"red","share":0.166,"ratio":1.1},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.093,"ratio":1.65}],"meanSaturation":0.29,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.414,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Edge of Tomorrow","year":2014,"director":"Doug Liman","cinematographer":"Dion Beebe","exemplarScore":1.307,"framesIndexed":58,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/edge-of-tomorrow-2014"},{"rank":2,"title":"Avengers: Endgame","year":2019,"director":"Anthony Russo","cinematographer":"Trent Opaloch","exemplarScore":1.027,"framesIndexed":82,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/avengers-endgame-2019"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Predator","year":2018,"director":"Shane Black","cinematographer":"Larry Fong","exemplarScore":1.016,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-predator-2018"},{"rank":4,"title":"The Avengers","year":2012,"director":"Joss Whedon","cinematographer":"Seamus McGarvey","exemplarScore":0.939,"framesIndexed":67,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-avengers-2012"},{"rank":5,"title":"Pacific Rim","year":2013,"director":"Guillermo del Toro","cinematographer":"Guillermo Navarro","exemplarScore":0.866,"framesIndexed":71,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/pacific-rim-2013"},{"rank":6,"title":"Captain Marvel","year":2019,"director":"Ryan Fleck","cinematographer":"Ben Davis","exemplarScore":0.851,"framesIndexed":82,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/captain-marvel-2019"},{"rank":7,"title":"The Tomorrow War","year":2021,"director":"Chris McKay","cinematographer":"Larry Fong","exemplarScore":0.73,"framesIndexed":155,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-tomorrow-war-2021"},{"rank":8,"title":"Predator","year":1987,"director":"John McTiernan","cinematographer":"Donald McAlpine","exemplarScore":0.684,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/predator-1987"},{"rank":9,"title":"Man Of Steel","year":2013,"director":"Zack Snyder","cinematographer":"Amir Mokri","exemplarScore":0.65,"framesIndexed":67,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/man-of-steel-2013"},{"rank":10,"title":"Mars Attacks!","year":1996,"director":"Tim Burton","cinematographer":"Peter Suschitzky","exemplarScore":0.666,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/mars-attacks-1996"}],"outlier":{"title":"Bugonia","year":2025,"exemplarScore":0.029,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}