This is the thread in which we anticipate "Capote"

Infamous was more entertaining/involving than Capote. Less self-importantly dour, and yeah, the doomed romance angle worked better. Still a pretty cruddy movie, though. Not a total snooze, but not much more than that.

just saw capote two nights ago. i really liked a lot of it. chris cooper makes me happy in anything, to be honest. i loved the colours, the farms, the scenes at chris cooper's house, all of the harper lee scenes.

what really frustrated me was the end. i spent the last 40 minutes or so thinking "this will be great if they don't show the execution." the west wing, of all things, is really great at never ever showing 'important' moments. i.e. the state of the union address is never shown - we see the preparation and the fallout, and while we may see clips of the speech we never actually see the unmediated scene, because what the president says is irrelevant - it's the stuff around it, how we react to it, that we care about. the execution is irrelevant - it is the lead-up and fallout that matter. we know at a point that it is going to happen, and showing it is besides the point. that they felt the need to need to show the execution suggested that it was somehow important, and it really wasn't - the film is not about the killers or the crime or the system. it's about the book and the author, to which the knowledge of the execution matters, not the event.

i was really into the levels of fictionalisation, too - this is a fictionalisation about the process of fictionalisation, with the added fun of having been adapted from a book about the writing of a book!