Could the rules be changed so that the audience poll only comes into effect if there’s a three-way tie between judges? I just don’t trust the audience reaction isn’t biased (and am tempted to do an analysis of the data to support my hunch) and I think that would limit the impact.

Venom

I don’t think Clarke knows what action means.

This was painful

Rambo.

Do us a Christmas present and start with the Honest Action series again, they were amazing.

Hal looks like Groucho with that mustache.

Greg is my favorite fighter movie fights ever has. i constantly agree with all of his fights!

chomp chomp!!!

Marc pitched Once Upon a Time didn’t he?

Joe Braven is the best action hero.

Ridly? Sarah Connor? Dorathy? Mary Poppins? Etc etc. Way better than Leia.

Saying the Scream franchise isn’t about commentary on Horror is so mind blowingly backwards and wrong, how can Clarke say she is a fan and expert on horror? She should really watch the movies before saying something stupid.

I want Friday 13th to go away.

The gender politics got really old, especially in the third argument. The pirate princess story was awful because it turned into gender politics instead of actually talking about the story. Clarke kept criticizing the end game of the princess saving the prince, but she never clearly said what the princess pirate end game was.

Leia is a great character,… not necesaarily the best action hero character tho. Sorry, she lost the battle when the name even came up.

My pick for this battle should go to Ethan Hunt. Yes, Bond might be the one that inspired other spy characters, but just because he is the first, that doesn’t make him the best. It all comes down to the incarnation of the character in the end of the days, and Ethan Hunt in the recent incarnation really shows the best quality of what an action hero should be. Also, I think that many iconic characters are almost always associated with certain actors playing them. So, it is not a sin if Ethan Hunt equals Tom Cruise irl.

Now, if we start talking about the best in terms of what they do and who they are, I’m sorry to bring this up, but Bond, according to the latest incarnation only, does a terrible job at being a hero. He is impulsive, often jeopardizes the safety of innocent people surrounding him. He relies too much on cool styles. He makes jokes after killing. He often fails his missions. His success rate often relies on pure luck rather than actual skills. His fights are also often about himself. The women around him died because of him.

Compared those qualities to Hunt, and we can totally see the difference. Yes, one may argue that those qualities are what distinguish Bond as a character, but those at the same time, are not really the pre-requisite of the best action hero. Note that there is the word “hero” there, which means a lot. Hunt easily represents that word. He never sacrifices people. He kills only when necessary, and never jokes about it. He almost always completes his mission successfully, like a hero does. He puts everyone above himself, and he relies on actual skills to pull it off.

Also, because we are talking about movie here, don’t forget about the elements of filmmaking behind the character. Well, I’m not going to elaborate it too much because it is obvious who the winner is. It is Hunt, easily, because the action, the stunt work of the actual actor really shows in the front of the camera, and in the end, that is what matters. How can anyone not appreciate that?

An action movie hero should embody the element of the action, the movie, and the hero, and Hunt has all of that. So, Ethan Hunt ftw.

Honest trailer for supernatural

Ethan hunt yes

So we apparently can’t trust the fact checking guy? Dr. No is from 1962 NOT 1958!!!

Such a fun a close matchup! Cannot wait for the title match.