mfastx said:
The prequels were doomed from the start. We already know what happens. We already know who lives, and who dies.
It's hard to get in to a sequence with, say, Obi-Wan Kenobi, because we know that he lives, so he can't die. It's hard to get into a movie when you already konw what happens.
Apollo 13 and Titanic come to mind of knowing the outcome before I walked into the theater. Both were very good movies, IMO.