Why do so many people hate the Star Wars prequels? I've tried watching them from different perspectives, but other than some badly written dialogue from Anakin I don't see the problem.

Because they're exruciatingly boring compared to the original trilogy, besides the cgi eye-candy. The acting is really stiff, bordering on awkward, and it tries much too hard to reference everything from the original trilogy in some way.

And some other stuff. Iunno, I mostly just found them all really, really boring compared to the originals.

Not to mention the universe shrinkage by cramming in cameos from several original trilogy characters including making C-3P0 and R2-D2 pivotal characters, trying too hard to be serious with boring ass political discussions, insulting everyone's intelligence with the Gungans and Jar Jar Binks by trying to cater to kids overly much, having at least three alien races that come across as racist caricatures, battle droids making goofy ass remarks, a huge over reliance on CGI over real sets (none of the prequels aged well), the fact that Hayden Christensen's acting made Anakin such a throughly unlikable character when the while point of the trilogy was supposed to be his fall into becoming Darth Vader, forced and awkward love plots...

Fuck. It's endless. I still watch them from time to time, but nostalgia from when I was a kid does not help cover the fact the movies are pretty mediocre with none of the magic that made the original trilogy such cultural powerhouses.

CidTheKid said
Because they're exruciatingly boring compared to the original trilogy, besides the cgi eye-candy. The acting is really stiff, bordering on awkward, and it tries much too hard to reference everything from the original trilogy in some way.And some other stuff. Iunno, I mostly just found them all really, really boring compared to the originals.

Dervish said
Not to mention the universe shrinkage by cramming in cameos from several original trilogy characters including making C-3P0 and R2-D2 pivotal characters, trying too hard to be serious with boring ass political discussions, insulting everyone's intelligence with the Gungans and Jar Jar Binks by trying to cater to kids overly much, having at least three alien races that come across as racist caricatures, battle droids making goofy ass remarks, a huge over reliance on CGI over real sets (none of the prequels aged well), the fact that Hayden Christensen's acting made Anakin such a throughly unlikable character when the while point of the trilogy was supposed to be his fall into becoming Darth Vader, forced and awkward love plots...Fuck. It's endless. I still watch them from time to time, but nostalgia from when I was a kid does not help cover the fact the movies are pretty mediocre with none of the magic that made the original trilogy such cultural powerhouses.

......Oh, I haven't watched the originals in a couple years so I couldn't really compare them off the top of my head...huh, I'll look into that. Thanks.