Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Keeping your kid from watching the PT? That's a little over the top. This is a different generation, and they have every right to enjoy things that we don't enjoy. In fact, it doesn't bother me at all if the younger generation doesn't like the original SW and prefers the PT. They also don't like the Beatles, Miles Davis, and a host of other things that earlier generations consider great. However, they should learn to respect that which came before, because the things they love will become passe too.

That said, I think that eventually anyone with an IQ over 90 will realize, on their own or with a modicum of education, that the PT sucks and the OT rocks.

I agree with this post.

I watched the OOT (my dad had copies from the 19965 re release and I was born in 1996 so I'm literally in the middle I guess) and I watched the PT. I like both - I like one more than the other, I think it's obvious which, but there's no need to go to extremes. In fact, I think in context with the PT, directing, acting, dialogue, etc, the plot of the OT is much better. Note, I said plot. Nothing else.

(In fact I say overall the plot of the PT is better than the OT, the presentation is what makes the OT the better trilogy)

And no, I'm not one of those who believes that what's new is better - I like the Beatles more than the Black Eyed Peas , Jack Kirby more than Grant Morrison.