As we all too painfully know, George Lucas was out of practice when he made Episode 1. As a result it was sloppy. For Episodes 2 and 3, he was back to form and they are as good as the original trilogy. The Phantom Edit, which removed superfluous scenes and trimmed the remaining scenes brings Episode 1 up to the standards of the original trilogy.

Because episode 1 was not great, many people shit on the Prequels, which is not fair. Then most people, being sheep, joined in on the hate.

This YouTuber knows that Avatar (the 1 by James Cameron —— ¡not the terrible 1 that tried to squish hundreds of hours of a good cartoon into 2 hours of an horrible movie!) is a good movie. He notices that sheople hate it. He asked 5 real-live friends whether they like or dislike Avatar. 4 said that they dislike it. When asked why, none of them could articulate a response beyond "Because the other sheople hate it.". He himselve points out many flaws the film has, but notes that, although it does not knock 2001 out of the slot for the best movie of all time, it is still a good movie, although not a great movie, and certainly not a bad movie.
This is exactly the undeserved hate the Prequels got: