rabscuttle1 said:
I'm just curious to hear some valid reasons instead of hate bashing, which is what I get when I ask.
Liking and disliking art is subjective. There is no objective assessment of any art.
The best way I've found to describe why I didn't like the prequels was that I found them tedious. And also forgettable, so I don't have a whole lot of specifics about why I found them to be tedious. When people don't like movies, they tend not to see them multiple times and remember details, I'm afraid that's just how it is.
I remember I didn't find any of the characters to be engaging or relatable, but whether that was a fault of the writing, the acting, the plot, or some combination thereof I just don't know or care. I also felt that the environments felt very sterile and uninteresting, but whether that was the fault of the CGI, the designers, the score, or some combination, again, I don't know. The main problem in my mind is that they didn't become "so bad they're good". Very little was so over-the-top bad it seemed intentional--I think the podrace in TPM and the giant lizard thing in AOTC were the only scenes that were so annoying they were memorable--everything else, including the entire ROTS film, faded almost entirely from my memory within days of seeing them. I actually got up to PRETEND TO GO to the bathroom during one of these movies (I think AOTC) just to have something to keep myself entertained.
Now I know it's bad to hear someone didn't like a movie you liked, but there it is. I didn't like them. They were not the worst movies I've seen, they were just run-of-the-mill bad movies. But they were the most disappointing movies I've ever seen (well, TPM was, my expectations were lowered by the time the others rolled around).
I do, however, like Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and, to a lesser extent, Return of the Jedi. I enjoy one of the special edition changes (credit for James Earl Jones), and either dislike the rest or don't see the changes as improvements.
EDIT: Full disclosure, I was one of those who camped out in front of the theatre to see TPM opening night. To me, that experience was much like Woodstock for Star Wars fans. But by the same token, if you ask someone who was at Woodstock if the music was any good, you're missing the point.