Michael Bay RETRACTS His Apology for ‘Armageddon,’ as He Damn Well Should Have

“I will apologize 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. I would redo the entire third act if I could. 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. I called James Cameron and asked ‘What do you do when you’re doing all the effects yourself?’ But the movie did fine.”

 

This struck me as a bizarre thing to say. What's there to apologize for? Judicious use of Aerosmith's “I Don't Want to Miss a Thing?” A heroic and totally realistic story of humble blue-collar oil drillers saving Earth? Paris being destroyed? Bruce friggin' Willis? Armageddon is the best Michael Bay save The Rock. It is perfect. This is a fact. 

Bay took back his ridiculous claims today, posting this on his, uh, personal Michael Bay message board:

One press writer has gone too far in reporting false information. He has printed the bare minimum of my statement which in effect have twisted my words and meaning. I'm not in the slightest going to apologize for the third movie in my movie career, a film called Armageddon. On the red carpet for Pain & Gain some reporters asked me what are you apologizing for, and I said what on earth are you talking about?

What I clearly said to the reporter, is I wish I had more time to edit the film, specifcally the the third act. 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. And still today Armageddon, is still one of the most shown movies on cable TV. And yes, I'm proud of the movie. Enough said.

 

Our long national nightmare is over. CUE IT.