It's unfair that this should be compared to "Capote". Unfair because this makes the bozos behind that stinker look like geniuses!
Talk about all over the place. Sandra Bullock is much more serviceable as Harper Lee than Catherine Keener. Hope Davis as Slim Keith does not embarrass herself. But Jeff Daniels's Alvin Dewey wouldn't have known the Clutters if they fell from the sky and landed on top of him! The real Babe Paley ate wusses like Sigourney Weaver's Paley for breakfast, then picked her teeth with losers like the one the movie passes off as her all-powerful hubby! I couldn't tell if Juliet Stevenson was playing Diana Vreeland or auditioning for an All-Drag Queen version of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Peter Bogdanovich as Bennett Cerf? For the love of God, NO!
Which leaves Toby Jones. He is physically perfect as Capote, but falls into the same trap Philip Seymour Hoffman did, turning into a whiny, malevolent elf you can't understand why the Queen Mum would bother wishing Merry Christmas to!
As though the natives were a bunch of rubes who just fell off the turnip truck, Truman drops names the way you and I breathe in a shameless attempt to win access to his soul mate. Later, Smith threatens to make Truman's dream come true, but decides instead to shove a sock down Truman's "f*cking throat" so he knows how Perry feels about being used! How stupid!
At least "Infamous" has Truman at the executions when they actually occurred. But then "Capote" didn't subject us to campy heads dishing against a z-grade "Tonight Show" mock-up.
Talk about all over the place. Sandra Bullock is much more serviceable as Harper Lee than Catherine Keener. Hope Davis as Slim Keith does not embarrass herself. But Jeff Daniels's Alvin Dewey wouldn't have known the Clutters if they fell from the sky and landed on top of him! The real Babe Paley ate wusses like Sigourney Weaver's Paley for breakfast, then picked her teeth with losers like the one the movie passes off as her all-powerful hubby! I couldn't tell if Juliet Stevenson was playing Diana Vreeland or auditioning for an All-Drag Queen version of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Peter Bogdanovich as Bennett Cerf? For the love of God, NO!
Which leaves Toby Jones. He is physically perfect as Capote, but falls into the same trap Philip Seymour Hoffman did, turning into a whiny, malevolent elf you can't understand why the Queen Mum would bother wishing Merry Christmas to!
As though the natives were a bunch of rubes who just fell off the turnip truck, Truman drops names the way you and I breathe in a shameless attempt to win access to his soul mate. Later, Smith threatens to make Truman's dream come true, but decides instead to shove a sock down Truman's "f*cking throat" so he knows how Perry feels about being used! How stupid!
At least "Infamous" has Truman at the executions when they actually occurred. But then "Capote" didn't subject us to campy heads dishing against a z-grade "Tonight Show" mock-up.