I think maybe you dropped a hundred somewhere up there :)

I know what you mean about Gaiman's movies. I still haven't managed to make it to Beowulf, although I definitely plan to. But I remember, for instance, when I first saw the trailer for Mirrormask, and it included the names "Neil Gaiman" and "Jim Henson Workshop," and my brain had a fangasm right there in the theater. And then when I finally saw it... it was good, certainly, but it wasn't brilliant and I'd been hoping for brilliant. Same with Stardust, which was also a good movie and all, but it didn't take me to the same place the book did.

I continue to hold out hope that Gaiman will find his film masterpiece someday; but I've already gathered that Beowulf isn't it. Which is a pity.