That's the thing--even if I DIDN'T like The Prequels, I wouldn't consider them having "brought down" the first three (or two, really) in the same way I don't consider remakes "bringing down" original versions of movies. They're separate entities. I don't consider "Batman and Robin" to have brought down "Batman" or "Superman IV" to have brought down "Superman," or "Alien Resurrection" to have brought down "Alien." Not at all. It's a lot more effort to actually CONNECT those movies and make them fit into each other, if I don't like one of them, than it is to just write the crappy movie off.

There's no tainting or pungent aroma listing around the ones I like because of the ones I don't like. I won't be watching a scene and suddenly go "Oh wow, this is shit, because 10 years later some dude made another movie about some of the same stuff." that doesn't make any sense, to me.