"Star Wars" Episodes 1-3 (1999, 2002, 2005) Technically, "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith" were all big moneymaking hits. But at what cost? The unstoppable "Star Wars" marketing machine and a generation's worth of anticipation meant that everyone was curious, but as each subsequent film revealed the depths of mediocrity to which George Lucas' vision had sunk, showing up at the theater every few years began to feel like volunteering to have your hopes and dreams sucked out of you. Even the original trilogy was retroactively damaged by these lousy, unimaginative films. Way to kill the force, dude."
Well put.