10 Movies You Wish Were Made Differently

The Star Wars prequels are unquestionably among the most debated and dissected movies of the last 20 years, largely due to George Lucas' bold - if ultimately ill-advised - attempts to differentiate them from his original trilogy.

First and foremost, the movies were mounted as a game-changing breakthrough in visual effects, with the overwhelming majority of scenes shot against green screens, allowing Lucas to tweak every last element of the movie in post-production.

The problem, however, is that much of the tactile, human element is lost in having so much of the movie performed by actors who have little tangible to act against.

The backdrops usually have a plastic, artificial look to them, and the over-abundance of CGI characters only further makes the trilogy seem like a cartoon compared to its more practical-minded predecessors.

That's just one facet of the prequel trilogy's problem, though: trade routes and senatorial manoeuvring are the last thing anyone should include in a movie about space wizards aimed at children, to say nothing of the toe-curlingly awful romance between Anakin (Hayden Christensen) and Padme (Natalie Portman).

What the prequels needed was a more practical foundation - a lesson absolutely learned by the recent sequel trilogy - with the political and romantic aspects becoming minor subplots at most, while focusing primarily on Anakin and Obi-Wan's (Ewan McGregor) bromantic adventures.

From the ground-up, the prequels were thought out all wrong, and though it's easy to appreciate that Lucas wanted to set a bold standard for future blockbuster filmmaking, he ultimately just left everyone clamouring for the comfort of physical puppetry and actual sets.