Vega Brothers will be avenged!!!

I realize I'm late on this... but you may have an opinion on it and nowhere to voice it... News about a Quentin Tarantino project doesn't necessarily blow wind up my skirt anymore but considering this news is in regards to two films that heavily influenced western film's identity in the mid to late 90s, two of my favorite films from that decade I thought it noteworthy to post.

I wondered why CityonFire called it Quentin to "homage" John Woo in Vega spin-off? in their link to an article stating that the spin-off story of the Vega brothers, played by Michael Madsen and John Travolta in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction respectively, was back on track. Then I realized what they were doing when I read the article. How would you do the spin-off? Both actors are older so the idea of a prequel is out of the picture. So how do you get the Vega brothers together in a film. Easy. You rummage through your DVD collection one night and pull out A Better Tomorrow 2 and say to yourself as you watch it, 'Holy Crap, that's it! That's how I'll get the Vega brothers together on the big screen!'.

According to Madsen, however, the maverick director has come up with an ingenious plan to make the film happen after all. He told Moviehole.net: "Well, first he said he would do it, then he said he wasn't going to do it. Then he called me and said, 'You know, I've figured out a way to do it. It can't be a prequel because you and John don't look the same. "It wouldn't make sense as a sequel because you're both dead.' And he gave me an idea that would be really outrageous - that John and I would be the twin brothers of Vic and Vincent. We come from Amsterdam to LA to avenge the deaths of our brothers. I think that's pretty interesting. For me, I'd love to do it."

And if you've seen A Better Tomorrow 2 that news and the CityonFire quip both make sense now. And if you haven't seen ABT2, what the hell have you been doing all these years? Clearly one of the greatest climactic gun battles to have ever been caught on film. Okay. Let me spell it out for the unknowing: Chow Yun-fat plays Mark in A Better Tomorrow, in which he dies. He plays Mark's twin brother Ken in A Better Tomorrow 2, and he flies from New York to HK to wreak bloody revenge on a triad gang.

My idea for a John Woo homage? It goes way back to my college days with Todd. A theological debate between Calvinism and Arminianism, with guns, like the stand off in The Killer.