I agree that the new episodes weren't great as the first 3 movies,i haven't seen revenge of the sith,but i think the phantom menace was by far the worse of all.

It barely had anything to do with the original story line,not to mention the retarded characters they spewed out.
I'm not hardcore star wars fan either but the thing that really pissing me off was Anakin.
Darth Vader is a so called legend among cinema characters,for some people he's one of the most evil movie villain.
In the original first movie,you can see him ready to destroy anyhing in his path,choke people when they fail him,completly heartless and tried several times to kill his two kids (not to mention he sliced off his son's hand).
In the phanthom menace you can see him as some full loving idiotic child,owned as a slave by a flying creature that came straight out of a disney cartoon.
In the attack of the clones you can see him as the average angry teenager MTV skaterboi pop idol ready to spray his pants everytime when Natalie Portman is in the same scene.
Why couldn't they make Anakin more darker or atleast don't make him look like a crybaby wimp with pussy lines like these:

"When I'm around you, my mind is no longer my own."
One of those spray pants scenes.

Oh, no, I'd be too frightened to make fun of a senator!

Padme;"I love you."
Anakin;"You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to live a lie and that it would destroy our lives."
Bold and the beautiful moment?

"If Obi-Wan caught me doing that, he would be very grumpy"
Sounds more like a line coming from a 'full house' episode.

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."