Since the thread was bumped, I’ll say this movie, while flawed and overreaching, is a way better Pynchon adaptation/embodiment than Inherent Vice, and it’s critiques are so obvious it blows my mind how critics and cinephiles I know overlooked them for dumb and obvious criticisms. I have people in my life close to me who literally are Garfield’s character, so I think that added to the authenticity for me... I’m convinced on some level that the depiction of softboy, paranoid geek misogyny hit too close to home for some people.