Wouldn't Star Wars have been better if they had forgotten all about that Death Star and started a romantic tryst? Wouldn't Jurassic Park have been improved if Sadler and Malcolm had found a cozy spot away from all those raptors to cuddle? Wouldn't Rocky have been better if Rocky had never accepted the fight with Creed? A story needs to follow through on what it sets up, but Bones and All trips on a romantic sub plot and gets stuck in bed staring at Timothy Chalomet with goo-goo eyes. It's not a particularly interesting romantic sub plot, either; it kinda just goes through the motions as a contrived argument breaks our characters up and a contrived, ho-hum series of scenes gets them back together.
What is particularly vexing in this case, is that Bones and All is basically perfect during its first half. At around the point in the movie where the title dropped, I thought for sure I was watching something very special. But, alas, stories are about something, and Bones and All is not about anything. It's just a pointless series of events, a story over before it ended.
I'd like to give everyone as much credit as I can, because the film looks good, is well acted, moves well (for a time,) and behaves 90% like a real movie. But a basic lack of understanding of setup and payoff really ruins this. No one intentionally reads a book where the last thirty pages are missing, and unfortunately, no one should intentionally watch this either. It hurts for me to say, but no one needs something that is essentially incomplete.
What is particularly vexing in this case, is that Bones and All is basically perfect during its first half. At around the point in the movie where the title dropped, I thought for sure I was watching something very special. But, alas, stories are about something, and Bones and All is not about anything. It's just a pointless series of events, a story over before it ended.
I'd like to give everyone as much credit as I can, because the film looks good, is well acted, moves well (for a time,) and behaves 90% like a real movie. But a basic lack of understanding of setup and payoff really ruins this. No one intentionally reads a book where the last thirty pages are missing, and unfortunately, no one should intentionally watch this either. It hurts for me to say, but no one needs something that is essentially incomplete.