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Well, otherwise he'd keep banging his head on the doorframe.

Written by Sam 'Batman/Batman Returns' Hamm: contains the classic line at the beginning: "Look out! It's the goddamn Watchmen!"

You just like Jeff Bridges, don't you?

I thought 'The Incredibles' was the film version of Watchmen anyway?

Exactly - tirgid three hour piece of crap. Of course, having read the last chapter of the third book, the writing wasn't exactly shit hot either.

I bloody hope not - if the author of the thing says it's unfilmable, then unfilamble it is.

As was reported in various trade journals, Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy) $120 million projected adaptation of Watchmen, due to enter pre-production this week, has instead been cancelled, putting Greengrass amongst other filmmakers who have failed to successfully adapt the book for the silver screen, including Terry Gilliam (Brazil), Darren Aranofsky (Pi) and David Hayter (X-Men scriptwriter).

Good riddence.

Well if you need any more help, please feel free to drop me a line, and I'll try and raid the old memory cells for details of what was in that essay all those years ago.

I actually helped a friend of mine write an essay of almost exactly the same requirements in university.

Basicaly, Frankenstein is actually a Romantic, not Gothic novel, pre-dating the Gothich literary movement by some years, though it does use a number of Gothich subtexts and stylistic devices. It's worth remembering that the subtitle of Frankenstein is The Modern Prometheus, which ultimately gives you a clue to what the book is about. Despite its trappings of body horror, the novel is essentially an halucinatory expression of man's replacement of god with science, and man's attempts to usurp science for his own ends, to create life and thus move himself to godhood. As such, it actually deals with a number of philosophically 'real' issues, but in an unreal, genre based fashion, But the sensibility is clearly very much of the Romantic period (remember that Shelly was wife to the poet, as well as friends with Colleridge and Keats, all of whom were present during the writing of the book in Geneva).

Great Expectations, on the other hand, is in fact considered by many to be a Gothich text: the figures of Magwitch and Miss Haversham torment the young Pip in a fashion that could easily have placed itself within the confines of the Gothic novel. It's only with Pip's aging that the novel becomes more overtly realistic, less prone to the child-like nightmarish grand guignol of the earlier part, instead focusing on the reality of those self-same situations, as seen through the eyes of a more mature Pip as the novel moves into the more usual areas of love and class divisions that fill out most of Dickens' work.

Anyhow, thats the first thoughts off the top of my head - don't know if it helps or not, but drop us a line if you need more help and I'll see what I can do when I've finished work.

I don't know why I bother going out drinking if it's always going to end up the same...

Well what was I going to say?

"Oh excuse me Mike, I have your art on a mug!"

"STALKER!!!"

I have one of those on a mug that I drink my tea out of at home!

Damn straight, homeboy!

Ah, but it's Spurrier: he'll of just thought up something even cleverer and cheesier than we ever could, and we'll all hate him just that little bit more for it.

"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits"
-Arab curse

"Go to holy shit"
-Cuban insult

"I shit on the balls of your dead ones"
-Spanish gypsy insult

"Copulate with my father who is dead"
-Admiralty Islands most unpardonable insult

"I'll stick a pigs leg up your cunt until your back teeth rattle"
-Japanese insult