“I will apologize for Armageddon, because we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks," Bay told the newspaper while promoting his upcoming Pain & Gain. "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."
And fine the movie did, grossing $200 million in North America alone.
Bay has not been unknown for apologising for his movies, in 2011 the director slated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen claiming that the writer's strike ruined the story, "We made some mistakes. The real fault with [the movie] 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."
Now if we can just get him to apologise for Pearl ;Harbour...