I've been saying for a while now that it would be a dream come true to have director Peter Jackson's first post-
Hobbit directorial gig be a motion picture in the vein of his earliest grindhouse works, most notably
Meet the Feebles, something demented, warped and low-budget. Wouldn't it be great to see that side of Jackson again after so many years of only seeing him use his filmmaking skills on big-budget productions? Well, it turns out his actual first directorial effort after those
Hobbit movies is something far removed from the likes of
Meet the Feebles but that's not at all a bad thing. On the contrary,
They Shall Not Grow Old feels like a return to form for Jackson as he uses groundbreaking VFX in the service of human beings and not the other way around for the first time in ages.
