Gotta a question for you, you’ve seen enough to know....
I thought Ragnar was the coldest I’d seen, until Uhtred came along, I got to watch Ragnar fall off, so I tend to lean Uhtred, but then I got to thinking, Crowe as Gladitor...Spartacus, Hundred Eyes, Butler in 300 etc etc etc, now I’m perplexed.
Question is, who is the baddest Warrior on TV or Big Screen, before Guns came on the scene?
Differences between style and execution when you talk about Ragnar and Uthred. The Last Kingdom comes off more fictionally story driven where as Vikings comes off more realistic even though they have a lot of room to make use of fiction cuz they do have to hit certain historical events.
Vikings comes off more real cuz of the battles and Ls taken. It wasn't like Ragnar just had As and then took a L and died. Mans had to be physically better and the better tactician. He won with his mind more than he had to with one on one's especially on the political end when his own ppl came for his neck.
Uthred has had his harsh setbacks but what was or should've been a revenge story turned in to him being the unnamed warrior who basically helps form Britain and cuz of that there's this plot armor around him and hero glow on him akin to Thor. I take points off him cuz the L he took was embarrassing and shameful. Like writers saying he won't get Bebbanburg until he an old man and has saved Alfred's entire bloodline.
So I just kind of give Ragnar the edge between the two.
Overall, among badass warriors the first person that comes to mind is from the big screen and that's Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy. To this day I haven't seen badassery like that. Crowe did his thing in Gladiator and so did Butler in 300 but I got Pitt on the bug screen.
I'm not gonna really consider a lot of lame remakes like Conan or The two Hercules flicks. Now Arnold as Conan probably should be mentioned. Gibson in Braveheart for sure. I guess the Robin Hood movies would count.
Not a lot else comes to mind unless somebody was really in to those Highlander movies
Tv wise theres more but there was kinda a gap after the early 2000s as far as I'm aware but if we go back to the 90s there's stuff that might not hold up and definitely doesn't; Hercules, Xena, Beastmaster, Sinbad, etc. The new stuff has been good like The Witcher and really a whole other level to the point they can be compared to the movies. Jon Snow, Spartacus, Uthred, Ragnar, Geralt, etc.
I'd put my Hercules nostalgia aside. I can see a strong push for Jon Snow.
I'd probably stick with Pitt/Achilles overall.
