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Michael Bay: 'I Apologize For Armageddon'

Apr 23, 2013, 21:14 IST

"I would redo the entire third act if I could," Bay admitted.Director Michael Bay has been nominated for four Razzie Awards for his work behind-the-camera on films like "Pearl Harbor," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."

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But there's one film that even Bay is sorry you had to pay to see.

In a recent profile in the Miami Herald, Bay explains what went wrong on his least-favorite film he has done:

“I will apologize for Armageddon. 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.”

www.imdb.com"Armageddon" is about a misfit team of deep core drillers who are recruited by NASA to save Earth from an asteroid.Despite Bay wanting to re-do parts of the 1998 film starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, audiences ate it up.

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"Armageddon" went on to gross nearly $554 million worldwide. With a production budget of $140 million and $414 million profit, we'd say Bay is still sitting pretty — despite any creative differences.

Bay's latest film "Pain & Gain" — about a trio of bodybuilders in Florida who get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong — opens in theaters this Friday.

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