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"Michael Bay has posted a statement online regarding comments he was said to have made about Armageddon. The director recently appeared to publicly apologise for his 1998 disaster movie, being quoted as saying that he would &amp;quot;redo the entire third act&amp;quot; if he had the chance.  The 48-year-old was alleged to have told The Miami Herald: &amp;quot;I will apologise for Armageddon, because we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks. It was a massive undertaking. That was not fair to the movie. &amp;quot;But the studio literally took the movie away from us. It was terrible. My visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown, so I had to be in charge of that. &amp;quot;I called James Cameron and asked &amp;#039;What do you do when you&amp;#039;re doing all the effects yourself?&amp;#039; But the movie did fine.&amp;quot; However, Bay has since written a post on Shoot for the Edit - the official Michael Bay forum - titled &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m Proud of Armageddon&amp;quot;. In the statement, Bay, who is currently promoting new movie Pain &amp;amp; Gain, claims that the journalist went &amp;quot;too far in reporting false information&amp;quot;, and that his &amp;quot;words and meaning&amp;quot; in the interview were twisted.  He said that he would &amp;quot;not in the slightest&amp;quot; apologise for the movie, which starred Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler and grossed $553 million (\u00C2\u00A3363m) worldwide. Bay added: &amp;quot;What I clearly said to the reporter is I wish I had more time to edit the film, specifcally the the third act (sic). &amp;quot;He asked me in effect what would you change if you could in your movies if you could go back. I said, I wish we had a few more weeks in the edit room on Armageddon. &amp;quot;And still today Armageddon, is still one of the most shown movies on cable TV. And yes, I&amp;#039;m proud of the movie. Enough said.&amp;quot; Watch the trailer for Michael Bay&amp;#039;s Pain &amp;amp; Gain below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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