Okay, since someone asked the other day, the reason why Sleepy Hollow annoyed me is as follows: the script is so basic there is very little reason to have the headless horseman in the film, or any other reference to the short story, either. It's basically a 1700's whodunnit with Christopher Walken as the murder weapon. If you took him out and replaced him with, say, a normal man with a sword who owes the murderer money, or a tame bear that the murderer raised from a cub, the supernatural elements would be gone, but the script wouldn't change all that much. I didn't find it to be a waste of time, but I did think it was hugely simplistic, and I'd prefer to watch a movie that is trying very hard to realize an ambitious story, but failing, than one that just coasts along without ever attempting to be challenging.