captainsolo said:
You're right, they really have no clue-on both sides of the camera. People cannot think for themselves these days. Just look at poor Christopher Lee and the sheer amount of terrible films he's been in over the years. Yet, even in the worst of them, even being overdubbed by someone else, he maintains such a regal and fascinating presence that it works. Always. If AOTC had simply stopped it's story right at Dooku first confronting Obi-Wan and continued seriously from that point, it would have been saved on every level. Or following Dooku leading his Separatist movement while actually going into the political reasons behind their breakaway...but oh wait that requires actual thought and drama.

You have to remember, actors have to eat. Ideally, once they got a starring role in something interesting, they could continue in that vein, but of course that have to take whatever they can get as long as they're marketable. It's a job like anything else. It's a different job than what you and I have, but they still have to eat.