He could have gotten very weird with Colossal, exploring the sci-fi conundrum introduced by the central premise of the movie.
And make no mistake, Nacho Vigalondo is not a mainstream director.
Instead, he sidetracks into melodrama as Gloria analyzes her relationships and Sudeikis’ character starts to disrupt his own peaceful and semi-normal life.
The only real issue with Colossal, which played at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, is that it squanders its potential by trying to toe the line of a mainstream film, perhaps because Nacho Vigalondo looked up and realized that he had two legitimate movie stars at his disposal — no offense to Open Windows star Elijah Wood — so he broke from character and tried to do what a mainstream director would do.