I am half way through the movie and is really hard not to laugh,
and even like laugh really hard...
I think is the acting which is giving me the comedy,
I am watching with a friend who's not into movies much and just asked me:
"but this is the second one or is a parody"
So my question is do you think Emerich did this on purpose?
or it just came like this by chance? or simply campy acting?
Honey, people believe what they are told
My theory is, this entire movie isn't really about the movie, it is about an idea that want to put in our head, a subliminal message of a female president, In 2016............when in 2016, around the time of an actual election where there's a female running for president.
(This movie wasn't created to be a sequel, but to push a pro-Hillary presidency push agenda)
Honestly, when I saw this in the cinema I walked out bewildered and frustrated. I thought it was a real mess. But maybe I was simply expecting too much; I watched it again last night on Blu-ray, and enjoyed it a whole lot more.
Personally, I think there are three big issues going on:
1) Roland Emmerich is a terrible scriptwriter. There are a lot of aspects of his filmmaking I really enjoy, but his writing isn't one of them. Fair enough if he wants to write the stories behind his film, but he really needs to get someone with real skill in to polish his scripts, especially the dialogue and scene writing.
2) The younger members of the cast were simply out of their depth, both in trying to make the wooden, unconnected dialogue work, and in trying to act in isolation in a green-screen environment. Compare them with Jeff Goldblum, who actually had very little dialogue but made every moment of it work. His performance struck exactly the right tone, consistently; it was like he was dancing on a highwire.
3) I think the film reeks of studio panic, in the old-fashioned manner of "chop out all the extraneous bits, so no-one gets time to think too much about how the story doesn't quite work". The film doesn't even quite reach two hours, which is surprising for what was clearly intended to be a "blockbuster"; I was really hoping the home video version would be a longer cut with some of the scene connections put back in. But maybe they're going to bump up their revenue by getting people to buy this one, and then release a longer cut, the way they did with The Martian.
So: yes, definitely campy acting; but no, I don't think Emmerich did it on purpose.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.