{"title":"Best Robot Movies","theme":"robot","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/robot","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":40,"listedFilms":30,"frames":3569,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"robot","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":59.49,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01664,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00028,"observedInFrames":341},{"element":"skyscraper","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.67,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00303,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00065,"observedInFrames":62},{"element":"debris","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.21,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00478,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00113,"observedInFrames":98},{"element":"helmet","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.01,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00425,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00106,"observedInFrames":87},{"element":"boy","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.89,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01088,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00279,"observedInFrames":223},{"element":"smoke","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.82,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00571,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00202,"observedInFrames":117},{"element":"clouds","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.14,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00522,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00244,"observedInFrames":107},{"element":"child","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.85,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00527,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00285,"observedInFrames":108}],"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":0.1263,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0528,"ratio":2.39},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"interior_indeterminate","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1037,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0706,"ratio":1.47},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2485,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.27}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.328,"ratio":0.72},{"hue":"blue","share":0.278,"ratio":1.6},{"hue":"red","share":0.14,"ratio":0.93},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.085,"ratio":1.51}],"meanSaturation":0.273,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.426,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Pacific Rim: Uprising","year":2018,"director":"Steven S. DeKnight","cinematographer":"Dan Mindel","exemplarScore":1.453,"framesIndexed":195,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/pacific-rim-uprising-2018"},{"rank":2,"title":"Transformers: Age of Extinction","year":2014,"director":"Michael Bay","cinematographer":"Amir Mokri","exemplarScore":1.39,"framesIndexed":317,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/transformers-age-of-extinction-2014"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Iron Giant","year":1999,"director":"Brad Bird","cinematographer":"Steven Wilzbach","exemplarScore":1.17,"framesIndexed":156,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-iron-giant-1999"},{"rank":4,"title":"The Wild Robot","year":2024,"director":"Chris Sanders","cinematographer":null,"exemplarScore":1.129,"framesIndexed":34,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-wild-robot-2024"},{"rank":5,"title":"I, Robot","year":2004,"director":"Alex Proyas","cinematographer":"Simon Duggan","exemplarScore":1.079,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/i-robot-2004"},{"rank":6,"title":"Chappie","year":2015,"director":"Neill Blomkamp","cinematographer":"Trent Opaloch","exemplarScore":1.025,"framesIndexed":71,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/chappie-2015"},{"rank":7,"title":"Bumblebee","year":2018,"director":"Travis Knight","cinematographer":"Enrique Chediak","exemplarScore":0.996,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/bumblebee-2018"},{"rank":8,"title":"Robot Dreams","year":2023,"director":"Pablo Berger","cinematographer":null,"exemplarScore":0.895,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/robot-dreams-2023"},{"rank":9,"title":"Love, Death & Robots","year":2019,"director":"Tim Miller","cinematographer":null,"exemplarScore":0.827,"framesIndexed":73,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/love-death-robots-2019"},{"rank":10,"title":"The Creator","year":2023,"director":"Gareth Edwards","cinematographer":"Oren Soffer","exemplarScore":0.824,"framesIndexed":68,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-creator-2023"}],"outlier":{"title":"Companion","year":2025,"exemplarScore":0.038,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}