You can't fault the guy for trying to do something outside of his realm, though. I'm sure it would get pretty boring just to play it completely safe. I'm not defending the prequels, but maybe that was just an aspect that interested him. Maybe it didn't work out as well as he'd planned or what we as a movie-going audience expected in quality, but you can't blame the guy for trying. You can blame him for covering his mistakes by changing the old movies, though. I have no problem with the prequels as themselves. I just hate them because they led to the changing of the originals.