10 More Genius Ways Movies Fixed Their Own Mistakes
1. Letting Green Screens Be Green Screens - Transformers: Age Of Extinction
It's fitting that an incredibly dumb Michael Bay film boasts a movie mistake solution so stupid that it loops all the way back around to become smart again.
One of Transformers: Age of Extinction's opening scenes sees a CIA black ops squad, Cemetery Wind, chasing down the autobot Ratchet and eventually killing him.
At the start of the sequence, we see corrupt CIA officer Savoy (Titus Welliver) issuing orders while standing by a van packed with surveillance monitors.
Though some of the monitors are showing surveillance feeds, some are simply airing bright green squares.
Considering that on-set all of these screens would've been greened-out so footage could be keyed in later, it seems to suggest that neither Bay nor his VFX team could be bothered to fill them all out with B-roll.
But it actually kinda...works? After all, it's totally conceivable that not all of the feeds would be working at once, or perhaps Ratchet may have even destroyed a few of them.
As lazy as it is that nobody could be bothered to paint the screens black instead of green, it's also an incredibly minor oversight, and one which basically papers over itself just enough to pass muster.