DuracellEnergizer said:
Like Anakin turning to the dark side on a dime, Padmé dying of a broken heart, Padmé dying period, mention of midi-chlorians, younglings, Grevious' cough, the stilted love scenes, the stilted dialogue, bad acting, overused CGI, etc, etc.
Definitely agree with most of those, although I wouldn't say that Anakin turned to the Dark Side "on a dime", it just felt like that because it was poorly executed.
For instance, I think that his distrust in the Jedi was supposed to be very acute, but it only came across in a couple of ineffectual story beats. There's a possibly meaningful exchange in one of the "Making Of" featurettes on the DVD (not the Blu-Ray). Lucas tells Hayden Christiansen that he's re-written Anakin's exchange with Palpatine. And Hayden immediately perks up and is like, "Oh?!?" with an optimistic gleam in his eye. I think he was thinking, "So now my character's actions are gonna make sense?" Only kinda-sorta.