Wasn’t too bad? Watch Episode I again. Seriously, don’t go by your pleasant memories from the movie theater. Put that fucker in the DVD player – I know your have the box set – and watch it. Now listen to how little Anakin yells a horribly fake “Whoopee!” every time something exciting happens and then does nothing deeper than furrow his little eyebrows. Dakota bloody Fanning could’ve done better when she was three.

Hayden might be a decent actor for those movies that are only meant to bring in impressionable teenage girls, but he was way out of his depth for a dark lord of the Sith. He was a whiny bitch. The only improvement that the prequels had on Vader was his fighting ability, and that could’ve been done with anyone given enough green-screen.

The original Vader actually pulled off a pretty good emotionless genocidal general act for three movies, and that’s no small feat.