When TPM came out I was in my senior year on high school, dragged two other friends to see it. One of them hated it, the other liked it, I was in shock, SW was dead.

For AOTC, I was in college back then, I dragged two other friends, who complained all the time midnight was too late to see a movie. I kinda liked it better but was still unimpressed.

For ROTS I was able to bring 10 other people with me, co-workers, ex-co-workers and friends. They all hated it, but I thought it was the best prequel by far, which is to say it kinda sucked. I remember posting pictures of it here.

For me, the must fun of the whole PT era was not the films itself, but the hype, the rumors, waiting in line at midnight, all that stuff.