For me personally Battle of the Heroes is the worst lightsaber fight of the prequel trilogy. It’s too much style over substance. It’s supposed to be the most personal one in the entire Saga, but I can’t get over all the twirling they do its just ridiculous. And the cgi looks so bad.
I do like don’t try it I have the high ground though. The dialogue is mostly okay if not great.
I wish it was more like the OT. I wish Kenobi tried to turn Anakin back to the good side, so Obi-Wan once thought as you do had a basis.
Anakin never was built up as a good friend and you never fell in love with him as a character or sympathized with him so his turn on a dime and going evil in 5 seconds made no sense.
He was just whiny and petulant and never showed the Anakin I wanted, as spoken of by Obi-Wan in Star Wars. And I shouldn’t have to go to a cartoon to get that Anakin. The Clone wars and Anakin being a leader should have been in the films.
The complexity and interest we have in Vader in the original is not justified by the prequel, he is not multilayered or really at war with himself over doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Or seduced by evil. He is just purely selfish and a jerk. And Padme loving him for all this makes no sense.
You have to go external sources read into things or headcanon to make sense of it all. If you don’t rely on Lucas stated goals in his commentary on what he was trying to portray, and you just stick to the movies as is, it’s pretty dicey.
I really do like Ian as Palpatine/Sidious and Christopher Lee as Dooku. And I really liked Maul in Phantom Menace, I think George if nothing else did well with those characters. I also kind of don’t mind how cartoonish Grevious is. Like a mustache twirling villain.
I like the idea of the force as being bigger than it was shown or described in the original even if i dislike Midichlorians. I like the idea of the Clones being Jango’s Clones, and i actually liked Jango as a character.
The Emperor/Chancellor’s machinations are interesting if they don’t always make sense.
Even though I don’t like the idea of the Jedi being a political body who sit in a circle, Yoda is portrayed with gusto by Frank Oz. Even though ultimately i think giving him a lightsaber was a mistake.
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are my favorite Jedi in the prequels. Liam and Ewan did a good job.
Except for some really over the top flourishes the cgi over time has started to bother me less when it’s not intrusive.