Move Over, Katniss: 10 Sexy Movie Archers We Loved Before 'The Hunger Games'

Jessica Biel in Blade Trinity doing Archery

Natalie Portman In Your Highness Doing Archery

Keira Knightley as Guinevere in King Arthur doing Archery

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye in The Avengers doing Archery

Orlando Bloom as Legolas in The Lord Of The Rings

Kevin Costner as Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince Of Theives

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma in Emma

Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon Doing Archery

Cary Elwes In Robin Hood Men In Tights Doing Archery

Theseus In The Immortals played by Henry Cavill Doing Archery

It's Hunger Games season! And with posters of Jennifer Lawrence, game-face on, staring you down, pointing her bow and arrow at you in a flourish of flames everywhere you turn, it's hard not to succumb to the delicate mix of sexiness and feminist bravado the image evokes. It's true that J-Law looks good doing just about anything — I challenge you to put her in a burlap sack and have her recite the dictionary and it NOT be completely endearing and compelling — but as Katniss Everdeen there's a real magic in her archery.

I guess then it would be easy to forget that the movies have given us some super sexy archer-types over the years — so transfixing is Katniss' archer stance. But before Katniss there were some pretty sexy cinematic archers, all of whom also managed to melt with the perfect flexed-bow-to-face-stance. Here are our Top 10 sexiest archers from film, Katniss aside...