skyjedi2005 said:

I started to wonder recently if Hayden is just an awful actor or if it was simply a case of bad scripts, poor direction, too much cgi, and they miscast him as Anakin.

What actor would have made an Anakin in his twenties or thirties believable and relevant to the character referenced in the oot?

I mean assuming you had a good script and a competent director. Someone who knows to use CGI correctly in a means of telling a story and not in an end to itself.

I think Hayden was possibly cast because visually he looks a little like a younger version of the Vader we see in Jedi (it's the slightly lazy eye).

As to who could have made a better Anakin Skywalker ... how about Chris Evans? He basically plays himself in the movies I've seen him in - cocky, fallible, the "loveable rogue".