Let's talk about Roland Emmerich's approach to film-making

I'm watching C4's The Day After Tomorrow's Premiere show - premiere shows sometimes don't come off too well it seems - obv. they're trying to show you as much as possible without spoiling, but that's not my problem here. I think I would quite like to go and see this film in the cinema for obvious reasons. I've never seen an Emmerich film in the cinema before, perhaps oddly. Again maybe the reasons why are obvious. The guy seems like a charlatan, presenting the art of film-making as an illusion, ignoring certain qualities (quality dialogue and getting the best out of his actors, subtlety in shots etc.) in favour of others (set-piece FX bonanzas and spectacular but cynical and sensationalist visual feasts). What drives him to make his films that way? Could a better compromise not be made? Is he just a fortuitous geek in the wrong chair - or are there hidden depths (misanthropic? approaching the medium and genre with an appropriate level of cynicism after all?)? What do you like and hate about his style and approach? Shouldn't he and other people be trying to make more intelligent disaster movies anymore?