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Well, I'm not particularly familiar with Truman Capote (I've seen still pictures but before the movie I don't think I'd ever seen film of him) so watching Capote didn't feel so much like mimicry since I had no familiarity with what he was mimicing.
Generally I'm of the same feeling as iSm about this and discount to some degree acting in biopics. For me, though, Hoffman's performance in Capote blows through any discounting that I might otherwise give (whereas Phoenix and Witherspoon get the full discount from me for Walk the Line despite enjoying the movie.
And Jake isn't hot, he's just dopey looking. For some reason he has one of those faces I think I'd enjoy punching. And it is a small complaint about the movie but I never bought that he'd aged a day over the course of it.
Too bad the discussion of the movie has died since now that I've seen it I'd really like to bring up the question of whether Ennis is gay. Jack certainly is, but Ennis is more like how I see myself falling for a man (I've no general interest in men romantically but have no doubt that I could fall in love with an individual man). Unlike Jack, Ennis never shows any interest in any other man and had a solid romantic relationship with a woman before meeting Jack.
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