imperialscum said:

I don't see why people argue about CGI/models? CGI and lack of real sets have nothing to do with prequels being bad. It is the enjoyable characters, lame story and bad dialogue.

It comes down to taste. Prior to the early 00's, most of the movies I was exposed to were made before the proliferation of CG, and as such, I was accustomed to movies made with physical effects. When CGI took over, Hollywood films turned horrendously alien, and the more of them I saw -- with their lousy characters and weak plots -- the more unpalatable CGI became.

Outside of fully animated films like the ones made by Pixar, I utterly loathe CGI, and am completely opposed to the heavy use of it in live-action films.

I play Star Wars video games that are pure CGI and yet they are far more enjoyable than prequels.

Video games, by their very nature, have to be CG. Films, on the other hand, don't, as all the movies made before the proliferation of CGI prove.

There is nothing wrong with CGI.

Again, it comes down to taste. I'll take stop-motion animation, puppets, models, and animatronics over it any day of the week.