I remember exactly when I realised the prequels suck.
Episode 1 - the "there is always a bigger fish" scene. I remember thinking - holy shit, this is a Star Wars movie, why the only feelings I feel are boredom and disgust? I felt disgusted always when Jar Jar or Anakin opened their mouths , and bored the rest of the time. This was the time when I realised this is not going to be the master piece I expected. I remember talking with my brother, he thought it was OK, but "only OK". The only thing I remembered from the movie was Natalie Portman, not because she gave a good performance, but because I thought she will be hot when she will grow a pair of boobs. I still can't understand why some people like Qwai Gong Bong or the red faced gymnast, they were exactly as boring as rest of the movie.
Episode 2 - I've seen it let's say it politely "intoxicated" and with my girlfriend, who liked kissing in public places, so I thought the movie was great, at least the scenes I remembered. A few years later when I've seen the DVD for the first time sobre I couldn't remember why I liked the movie. Some of the action scenes are good, but all of them were too long and too fake looking.
Episode 3 - I didn't expect absolutely anything, and that's exactly what I received. I was bored from the first shot. CGI ships firing CGI lasers on other CGI ships in CGI space with CGI droids and CGI clone troopers. Then we cut to a CGI set where CGI Dooku and CGI droids fight CGI Jedis. Then we got a million of boring talking scenes shot. Then we cut to the first comedy scene - "Anakin, join the dark side", "No", "Join the dark side", "OK, fuck off Samuel Jackson !". Then Anakin went to another CGI set where he killed with a CGI lightsabre some CGI aliens and one rubber masked alien, then an extremely long and extremely boring fight sequence which felt like it took 4 hours (similar to the podrace in episode 1). Then another funny scene happened when Anakin was burning alive and Obiwan was yelling at him that he loved him as a brother. Then another funny scene where we were told that Natalie died because she was bored or something and then the last funny scene, with a tiny guy in a Darth Vader Halloween costume pretended he was Frankenstein's monster and yelled Nooooooooooo.
I don't get it, was this supposed to be a comedy?