calling it a movie is a disservice to the art of the motion picture.
No, see, "movie" is exactly the right name for it. It is, after all, a series of moving pictures.
Film, however, it is not an appropriate title to call the prequel movies.
But yeah, there are pieces of massive stupidity in Star Wars - more so in the prequels, but also in the originals. How about this:
"I'm sure they're tracking our ship. Let's fly right to the Rebel base after I've spent days resisting Imperial interrogation techniques, keeping the location of said base a secret, despite the fact that they have just demonstrated their ability to destroy entire planets on a whim. I'm not even sure we can find a weakness in the blueprints stored in R2-D2, much less in a margin of few hours, but I guess we just have to find something..."That's the most glaring example of idiocy I can think of right now, but there are others as well. Like snow speeders that don't work in cold. Or Luke just leaving his X-Wing in the swamp for days even after he encountered Yoda, and never thought to ask if they could maybe do something about it before the thing was completely submerged in mud and water.
However, the original trilogy is actually entertaining series of well made films, and the same cannot be said of the prequels. They're just a slide show of different environments, with negligible character developement and not much of a plot to speak of... and they even left the most interesting stuff away between the Attack of the Clowns and the Revenge of the Steaming Pile... namely, the Clone Wars.
If you want proof of this, just see how successful the Clone Wars animated series was.
