9 Movie Mistakes & Plot-Holes Confirmed By The Creators

3. The Mystical Nonsense - Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

If there's a mistake in the second Transformers movie you'd probably like Michael Bay to apologise for or even admit, it'd probably be either putting robo-testicles on a Transformer or the introduction of racist stereotypes Skids and Mudflap. But at least he showed some self-awareness for the first and worst sequel.

It took him two years, but he admitted to Empire that at least one thing about it was "crap":

"We made some mistakes. The real fault with [Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen] is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap. The writers’ strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where you’ve got to have a story in three weeks. I was prepping a movie for months where I only had 14 pages of some idea of what the movie was. It’s a BS way to make a movie, do you know what I’m saying?"

Famously, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman were locked in a hotel room to write the script by their own admission, which is never a strong foundation. But this is probably the easiest one for any film-maker to admit, considering how successful Revenge Of The Fallen was at the box office. If anything, the shoddy writing process gave Bay and his team even more room to neglect usual, good film-making practices without compromising audience reaction.