I felt the movie was ridiculous at the beggining, but was it on purpose?

I heared some good reviews about the oroginal film but only got a site to watch this one. The first like 30 minutes of the film until the crash were absolutely horrible. The actings were pathethic, the situations were surreal, the relationships made no sense, the dialogues were so corny. I´m a very sensible to cringe person and i had to stop the film and shout every minute because everything was readicolous, the stalker, the super creepy relationship with the "friend" and sofia, and everything sofia said in that night at here house seemed to bad to be true. Their world just didnt feel real at all. I almost abandoned the movie there but decided to hold a little longer and from the crash onwards really enojoyed it. Did it happen to anyone else?
The movie got a lot more real after the crash, and the world became so dark and uncomfortable that it lead me to believe the "fake" perfect world at the beggining was shown like that just to make it contrast. Seeing Tom Cruise´s friend telling him not the get creepy with girl he met once felt like a shoot of reality in comparisson with the unreal beggining.
I just refuse to believe the beggining was not made like that purposefully. It felt like one of those comedy movies where things dont have to make so much sense and then it turned into a deep psychological thriller.