Roland Emmerich - The New Irwin Allen

Remember those quality 70's disaster movies?  The Towering Inferno, The Posiedon Adventure, Fire!, and Flood! All produced by Irwin Allen and all pretty cheesy. They did have there limited excitement and I guess for there time they were pretty well done.
Welcome to the 21st century and the new Irwin Allen, Germany's own Roland Emmerich.
For those of you not acquainted with his movies, he is the director of such world destroyers as Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and released late last year, 2012.
Last night, I had some time to myself and been that my AFL team was not playing (we are Geelong the greatest team of all) I decided to hunker down and peruse The Day After Tomorrow. It is part of my DVD collection, as is Godzilla, and I am quite proud to say that I totally loved it.
Roland's disaster movies usually have pretty crappy scripts, dodgy acting, an annoying child who you hope does not make it to the end (but always does) and yet he seems to round up a shit load of money because his special effects, set designs and production values are some of the best going around.
He plays it cheap on the acting talent with a reasonably well known actor so as not to spend too much and that works to his advantage as he can siphon the money he saved on talent back into the production.
I recently read an interview with him where he said he was not doing any more disaster movies and I say "Roland, you suck!!!". That really is a big loss to this well trodden format of movie making. Sure, you need to leave your brain at the door but sometimes you don't want to think, you just want to view. So, to all those up themselves artsy losers who think the latest Lars Von Trier or Werner Herzog movie is $15 and time well spent at the cinema how about you give good old Roland a shot, you may surprise yourself.