Chill bro.

Most people I think have flubs with the prequels due to acting (As you said) and scripting. The story/plot of the films were all very well thought out but when Lucas scripted it he did not do a great job. While intriguing and daring, the poor scripting makes it seem as if the story is poor. Coupled with the bad acting, you get a movie with loads of SFX and a story that is poorly told.

Personally, I don't hate the prequels; I actually like them. They might not be up to par with the original trilogy (Except for Episode III) but they hold their own, especially when up against the current day films.

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Oh god no you don't know what you've done

Max Butcher will be here any second now for a 5 page explanation of it

In all seriousness though, pretty much all of our opinions fall into the Plinkett reviews of them, they're all pretty long and in depth and if you're seriously going to ignore them after 5 minutes because you 'don't care' but then go on to post 46374 question marks asking why the prequels are considered bad, you might want to rethink things.

But if you want it simply.

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You can't blame the guy for not watching those whole reviews.  The "review" for attack of the clones is almost as long as the movie itself.

I enjoyed the reviews so much more than the actual movies themselves because they are soooo boring, shot very lazily and bland with no excitement or care

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I'd have to agree with GHB; I think the prequels are to a certain extent given an unfairly bad rap.  Yes, they have many flaws--but so do the originals.  What really annoys me is how loads of people go on about the various bad things in the prequels, while acting as though there are absolutely none in the originals (Ewoks? Plot holes?  The whole "romance" thing between Luke and Leia?  The Empire's very best troops letting themselves get beaten by a bunch of teddy-bears armed with nothing more than sticks and stones?)  Invariably it's always the same things people complain about (usually Jar Jar and 9-year old Anakin), and they go on and on and on about how horrible these things are (seriously people, it's been, what, 14 years now?  Can't you find another movie to hate?).  And say what you will about George Lucas, but you can't claim he hasn't learnt from his mistakes.  People hated Jar Jar and Young Anakin--he made Anakin older, and Jar Jar completely disappears, except when he almost single-handedly helps create the Sith Empire (coincidence?  I think not).

People whine about how Trade Federations and negotiations are boring, but if the Prequels would have been similar to the originals plot-wise, I bet people would be whining about how similar the prequels were to the originals.  And while I think the actual execution of these ideas was somewhat sub-par, I still appreciate that Lucas wanted to do something different and original.  I think many people would still hate the prequels even if they were better.

I'm going to to go way off topic and answer the original question.

The story for Star Wars is relatively simple. Particularly the first film.  It's a pretty basic save the princess adventure.  It even has an old wizard type character.  Of course, we do get an interesting and fun twist in the next film, but it's nothing really crazy.

Despite it being relatively simple, I still really like it.  Star Wars films are all my favourite movies.
I think what makes it is its style, which seems to stand out from most other science fiction stories.  It also plays itself more like a fantasy story than a science fiction story.  The music and sound is also a huge part of it.  Without its score I doubt it would be as popular as it is.

This is probably why I love all of the films unlike most people. The over-the-top style, music, and amazing sound is still present in the prequels.

Empire Strikes Back is still the best, though.

Shh. If he doesn't want to go watch the video he doesn't have to. But

He isn't going to be allowed to ask people since I think everyone will refer him to those reviews. In all fairness, I "liked" the prequels when I was like 11 but always loved the original trilogy, I watched the prequels when I was 14, and hated them. And then saw the reviews.

Basically if your conscious and paying attention to the story, acting, and not just mindlessly watching what I think are awful fight scenes, you start to notice how bad these movies are.

But it didn't have to be like that.

Agreed. It isn't like Lucas built a large, interesting universe capable of supporting more than a single story.

Personally the thing that still irks me about the prequel trilogy is the way Jedi duels were portrayed. The original trilogy kept the swordplay fairly well grounded; light-saber fights were direct affairs (particularly in the ANH and ROTE) with little to no twirling, whirling, or whatever other bizarre thing no one would actually do in a fight to the death. I get wanting to distract your opponent, but while they're swinging at you probably isn't the best time to worry about that (to the choreographer's credit, Obi Wan does make one unnecessary spin in ANH, though since editorializing the intentions of the OT filmmakers has become accepted practice I would posit that he did this to show his confidence in dealing with Vader).

Of course the duels in the original trilogy were between a barely trained Jedi and a quadriplegic, but intentional or not, the end result was that they felt fast and dangerous. You got the impression that Jedi and Sith were formidable fighters, but never really thought of them as being capable of taking on an army single-handed (no pun intended). I feel like the prequels took the edge away from light-saber battles with an over-reliance on stunts and effects over psudo-realistic swordplay. Jedi and Sith both ended up being ridiculously overpowered... except when convenient for the writers (see Order 66, and this gem). They took the knights of the original trilogy and turned them into superheroes, and I know I'm not alone when I say I'm pretty tired of watching superheroes. That bothers me more than anything else because I suspect the effect on the franchise is irreversible. I don't foresee a return to reasonable duels, and that's a shame.