I'll tell you what I think, but you won't like the answer. I quite enjoy the prequels, they're on a completely different level but they're enjoyable films. Lucas is an idiot, he always has been and he always will be. It's all one big joke for him. He's retained rights to "his own films" a feat most writer/director's never achieve. He whines about "only having US$20,000,000" for Star Wars. He thinks he's fixing the films, making them right - he thinks it what he always wanted - but then how much do we change over the years? He may as well be Andy Kaufman. He's lost his touch with reality. No matter how seriously we take his movies - he takes them just as seriously. The sad difference is his obsessiveness and blatant idiocy. He really has no idea how stupid his obsessions are. He lies to us to try and maintain a steady image. He sells us shit. He has no idea what he's doing, he never has.

I watched Attack of the Clones a few days ago, though I enjoyed it I must say I actually PREFER the old sabre effects. They're imperfect, more true-to-life. They have a certain charm to them that is absent in the more perfectly uniform ones.