Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze: Bad Movie Review Starring Ron Ely

[@chriskittinger2735]

Ron Ely just passed. RIP Doc.

[@kiskaloo6843]

Fabulous as Tarzan and Doc Savage.

[@charlesballard5251]

I was going to reply that he passed several years ago. Then I checked the IMDB and find out he died on September 29th of this year, about 5 weeks ago. I can't believe I missed that!!!! Thanks for posting.

[@pauljones1376]

Yes brilliant as tarzan

[@briang9581]

The makers of Buckaroo Banzai were most definitely Doc Savage fans.

[@willmfrank]

"Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension" is a better Doc Savage film than this one is.

[@ScreamingScallop]

@@willmfrank They had a much better sense of balance between "seriousness" and "camp." Sadly, even that couldn't put butts in seats.

[@Neville60001]

@@ScreamingScallop, the reason being is that nobody remembered Doc Savage enough for it to be a success.

[@ericjanssen394]

Banzai had the same problem (only more insufferably so) as Savage, both the book and movie version: There’s no origin, no explanation of how he can Do Everything, and no ground rule territory of what he can’t, to create tension. And yes: That’s a LOT of sidekicks.

[@Neville60001]

@@ericjanssen394, that was the whole point, except it was done intelligently and not stupidly as this movie did it (albeit with a bit of tongue-in cheek.)

[@crashdive100]

It was just announced that Ron Ely has died at the age of 86. I liked Tarzan as a kid but you will ALWAYS be the Man of Bronze to thousands of Doc Savage fans. RIP Clarke Savage Jr. I lost a hero today.

[@Anynom]

If any character deserves a big screen reboot, it's Doc.

[@Alexander_Stern1]

Chris Evans? A blond Henry Cavill?

[@doublep1980]

There were news of a reboot starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson, I kid you not. This was some years ago, no updates since.

[@bassvibasics479]

If they do, we know who gets to play the World's Greatest Chemist, eh Science Advisor?...

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@doublep1980it is technically in development except it’s going to TV, but there’s no way Rock can be in it anymore except as a producer

[@bostonrailfan2427]

….Indiana Jones would like a word, he’s Savage with a fedora

[@pauldenyer6191]

That Star Wars/Indiana Jones bit at the end was priceless

[@eriksieurin334]

I agree!

[@brenthenshaw3585]

His sidekicks are the principal from The Breakfast Club, the supply and/or finance officer from MASH (tv series), Piney Wilson from Sons of Anarchy, Hollis Mulwray from Chinatown, and Officer Muldowney from Saturday the 14th. Top notch crew, there.

[@jasonstarks3796]

Well spotted & researched!

[@willmfrank]

I knew I recognised Eldon Quick's voice: "Oh just use the standard S-one-nine-seven-six stroke J and write in 'Pizza' where it says 'machine gun.'"

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

I mainly know William Lucking as a very convincing scary character in a KUNG FU episode.

[@drewknoles3258]

Those magic snakes freaked me out as a kid.

[@baldwinofbethune8294]

You’re not the only one !!!

[@krs4976]

You and me both , I had nightmares for years and never knew which film they were from till today

[@stevegreenfield758]

Saw this back in'75 with my dad at the theatre. We were both Doc fans (he got me into the books) and were so disappointed the makers went the camp Batman route. We both thought Ron Ely mad a great Doc. Over the years I've seen the movie numerous times and even own the dvd. I have learn to love it for what it is. When "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" came out, we Doc fans knew that was the Doc Savage movie that should have been.

[@tedstarnes2997]

I still love the books and yes the movie was a huge disappointment

[@steveng2475]

My problem was I enjoyed the books (there were a few) as a teenager, so when this film came on late one night, I watched it and wanted to punch the TV. Not my Doc Savage!

[@TheUluxian]

100% agree. Being a huge fan of the pulp novels, making a "camp" movie was a disgrace

[@willmistretta]

Seems like they really wanted to channel the '60s Batman series here, but that show's success hinged on its novelty and a truly legendary cast.

[@calvinkatt662]

That and the time period. If this film had been released in the mid-late 1960's, it might have found an audience. That type of humor didn't work as well in the 1970's.

[@mborok]

@@calvinkatt662 The Lynda Carter “Wonder Woman” captured the spirit of the original without being too campy. At least the first season, which was set during WWII.

[@johnkirby8939]

​@@calvinkatt662thing is, this film was conceived as a Batman knockoff but lingered in development hell till the moment had passed.

[@justoutofframemoviereviews656]

RIP Ron Ely--DOC SAVAGE: Man of Bronze.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

He’s also a good tv Tarzan. Likely both the first ever tv Tarzan and the tallest official Tarzan actor ever, alongside his spiritual successor Alexander Skarsgard in the cinemas.

[@mrhaag]

I remember being scared to death of those green floating snakes as a kid watching this back in the 80's.

[@Jimvanhise]

George Pal, who produced some classic and important films, decided that there was no way pulp hero Doc Savage could be played straight, and so he created a tongue in cheek silly film. Had Pal created a true adventure film in the style of the pulps and the old serials, he would have beat Raiders Of The Lost Ark to the punch by six years and had a hit film. Instead the film was a dud which played theaters for only 2 weeks before it disappeared. I once knew someone who worked at Warner Brothers and I asked him about a rumor that there was an alternate serious cut of the film, but he said that this wasn't true.

[@jamesbrice6619]

I loved this movie. Everyone i knew thought it was a blast. I can't stand Indiana Jones.

[@crashdive100]

George Pal and Doc fans had high hopes for this. According to Ron Ely, Warner Brothers execs were sacked right before this went into production and slashed several million dollars from the budget because the original script called for loads of special effects and they didn't want the new ruling crowd to have a hit on their hands. Also, while I liked Ron Ely alot, Pal's initial casting of Doc was Steve Reeves. Yep, Hercules himself. Might have been a different move if Reeves had done it. Raiders of the Lost Ark is what Doc Savage deserved to be. If they get another Doc project going, I like Chris Hemsworth or Alan Ritchins.

[@nickmitsialis]

I remembered Ely from his stint as Tarzan on the TV show--that theme song 'rocked'.

[@sartanawillpay7977]

Think Ely was spot on!

[@crashdive100]

@@sartanawillpay7977 I agree. Lester Dent's physical description of Doc matched Ely's build...big and muscular but not out of proportion. And Ely looks huge when he's standing next to everyone else.

[@onyx2626]

@@crashdive100 Ely would be hard to duplicate today, because he was a Leading Man, not an Action Hero, like Dwayne Johnson. He acted for the movie, not the audience. Chris Hemsworth can't carry a movie by himself, and he's not tall enough. You need a Tom Selleck type. I think the meat and potatoes type actors are ignored today because their masculinity borders on "toxic", meaning some people can find problems with their persona that general audiences don't.

[@jamesbrice6619]

I hope not. I hate Indiana Jones😂

[@duncanstone8758]

Just read that Ron Ely died on Sept. 29. He was 86. RIP

[@cha5]

I love the Doc Savage books with cover illustrations by James Bama, but this movie? Not so much.

[@willmfrank]

Ron Ely gets his shirts ripped a lot in this movie. That's about the only resemblance.

[@CassandrashadowcassMorrison]

Not ao much agreed. But enough to still watch it all these years later. Also the NPR radio adaptations from the mid eighties with Robin Riker as Patricia Savage

[@petermurray4193]

I always see Ron Ely as tarzan

[@mmattson8947]

I used to like Doc Savage a lot, but I was 6 at the time, and watching a lot of the Tarzan re-runs on syndication.

[@petermurray4193]

@@mmattson8947 as I remember, it was a sort of adventure and crime story most weeks and it just so happened to have tarzan and cheetah as some of the main characters, wasn't half bad but I was a lot younger lol

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

He was a memorable Tarzan.

[@dlxmarks]

And Ely died today, October 23, 2024. RIP.

[@TheUluxian]

I own 3 sword canes that I had always wanted since I was a kid, thanks to the Doc Savage pulps I was hooked on in the 70s... Should be noted, too, that Doc Savage's "Fortress of Solitude" actually pre-dates Supermans by 2 decades

[@crashdive100]

Superman editor Mort Weisinger was a HUGE Doc fan and in the 1940s was asked by Street and Smith to write a Doc story. He declined. (the story was eventually published as Birds of Death) When the pulps went out of business in 1949, Weisinger ripped off Doc stories for Superman and swiped the Fortress of Solitude thinking NOBODY would ever read those stories again. Ooops.

[@docdeth904]

This is what happens when you have all the ingredients for a great movie, but somewhere, someone gets the wrong idea and injects unnecessary camp into it. This could have been great. The cast was well cast, especially Ron Ely, he was like Savage ripped from the books. A bit over the top, but, that was Doc Savage. I lived this when it came out, and later when I saw it on TV, but, somehow, something seemed, just, wrong.

[@Homeschoolsw6]

Fat Bastard was one of Doc Savages sidekicks? That's rad.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

it was the highlight of his life, after Doc died he took to food

[@Homeschoolsw6]

@@bostonrailfan2427 lol

[@antoinettegreen5344]

If they had made this in the 90's or early 2000 Dolph Lundgren would have been perfect!!

[@Donathon-f6f]

Absolutely

[@onyx2626]

He has a black belt AND a chemistry degree, and speaks more than one language! WE WERE ROBBED!

[@futuristica1710]

The doc books are great. They deserve a modern franchise.

[@euansmith3699]

I've only read a few of the pulp reprint anthologies, but I really enjoyed them. I feel that, like Conan the Barbarian, the character lost a lot of surprising character when making the transition to other mediums.

[@ajivins1]

I preferred Richard Henry Benson, The Avenger, Doc's stablemate.

[@MightyMezzo]

Been decades since I saw this at the Ritz in Muncy, PA. I remember Doc drove a really awesome boat-tailed Cord convertible. I’m for a reboot IF they get that car back.

[@brunochambre]

It is sad that this was George Pal's final film. It's low budget is given away by TV like photography. Too many zooms and closeups. It should have been shot in Anamorphic Panavision to give it a panoramic look like Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Obviously largely confined to the WB Burbank Lot and the nearby Columbia Ranch , this could have been a great series of films if not for the lack of financial support from the powers that be who probably had never heard of Doc Savage series of books.

[@onyx2626]

The actors and the score carried the movie. They just couldn't decide on tone. Nice opening though.

[@ferociousgumby]

Neil Breen meets the Six Million Dollar Man!

[@briancoulombe4517]

It’s a shame your dad doesn’t walk around with a cute pet piglet. He totally would’ve clinched the title then.

[@AnotherCanadianSenior]

Jeez, when a teen, I loved the novels that movie is loosely based on; I remember how excited I was to go see the movie and how bitter I was after I had seen it.

[@pauldenyer6191]

I'm also a Canadian Senior and I have to agree

[@bambufan3636]

"0:43 And this is his trusty sidekick Don Trump, The Man of Bronzer!"

[@kiskaloo6843]

Donnie would claim to have bonespurs to get out of that expedition.

[@alasdairwatson712]

My brother had a large collection of Doc Savage books, which I have inherited, and ,having read one, I went with him to see this when it first came out. We were very disappointed. As you say the earnestness was spoilt by the camp and was turned into a spoof of the whole idea. Interestingly, the part which you say works best (Mona, you’re a brick) is an actual quote from the text of the first book of the series, “Doc Savage, Man of Bronze”, the plot of which was used by the film. It was not just a bad movie, it was a waste of potential.

[@davlang3783]

I loved this film as a kid, and loved Ely as Tarzan. Even as a kid i knew it was cheesy but somehow thought it was alrightt. The cartoon green snakes terrified me. Being little, i took the promise of a sequel at face value. Seeing Paula Gleason as not an annoying creep was refreshing.

[@raulcruz716]

I've read a few Doc Savage pulp adventures and I admit Doc needed a bit of fixing in the personality department, but not to the point of going into the Adam West Batman route. This movie is basically Leslie Nielsen's Dr Rumack (from Airplane)as a superhero, basically Ron Ely just delivering the most dead pan lines while everyone else acts like they're in a Ritz Brothers movie. I didn't say Marx Brothers because no one in this movie is anywhere near as funny as any of the Marx Brothers, including Zeppo. Ron Ely is the perfect Doc Savage in the most imperfect Doc Savage movie. He's the 70s version of Henry Cavhill, great looking Superman in not so great Superman movies.

[@Neville60001]

The Henry Cavil Superman movies worked well for the 2000's, unlike _Superman Returns_ (which I loved.) That people like you didn't get it says more about you and how tied you are to the Donnerverse movies so much that you can't see any other directors doing a movie of the character.

[@Twirlip2]

"Including Zeppo" - LOL!

[@Osentalka]

I remember this, didn't think it was too bad when I was 10.

[@masudashizue777]

The Magic Snakes answered my question. I didn't think "hilariously inept films" existed in the 70s.

[@tamlandipper29]

You think disco prevents ineptitude?

[@ScreamingScallop]

Oh my. This might be the first step in an epic journey of discovery.

[@williamj.dovejr.8613]

I first saw Ron Ely in reruns of Tarzan on KCOP channel 13 as an eight year old kid..then this film. They don't make them like him anymore!

[@derekramsaroup3883]

I absolutely loved this movie as a kid,and it still remains one of my all time favourites..I'm still gutted to this day that they never made the promised sequel,"The ArchEnemy Of Evil"

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

Ron Ely played Tarzan on tv in the early 1970s.

[@johnn.4407]

Liked the movie as a kid, not so much as an adult.

[@Elementa2006]

00:54 Funny enough, Ron Ely would eventually play an elderly Superman in an episode of the 90s Superboy TV show.

[@marklotinga]

As ever, a great and fair review, as much as I love this film everything you say about it is true and more, still to this day it rankles with me that through this ham-fisted approach we were denied the deserved sequel, and how this has never been re-booted is beyond me. Aside from his iconic stint as Tarzan, Ron Ely was born to play Doc, if I were to try and cast this nowadays I would struggle to think of anyone who would be equally up to the job. And of course whilst speaking of Ron, what timing with this review with his sad passing this week, RIP Ron. On a lighter note, don't think for one second that the "death by golden shower" pun went by without at least some of us noticing, this is by far the more amusing death by molten gold after Jill Masterson in Goldfinger. With all that said, it is time to dust down my DVD copy of Doc and indulge my inner child.

[@JMxx6204]

Blimey, there’s Ron died today now. R.I.P. Ron.

[@a.champagne6238]

The Phantom (1996) did it very well but I seem to be in the minority ( but so was Roger Ebert).

[@bloodrunsclear]

I can’t hear that music without singing ‘DOC SAVAGE! DOC SAVAGE!’

[@kali3665]

1:18 The World's Greatest Chemist! I'm sticking with you, Robin! Sadly, we lost Ron Ely just after this came out. So, this has become his memorial. RIP, Doc.

[@robertsimpson4532]

RIP Ron Ely. Passed away today 10 24 2024 at the age of eighty six.

[@philipmorris4843]

Looking back now it looks like it could have been the screenwriters from the sixties Batman and the Wild Wild West. They missed a comedic opportunity by using the that great sound effect when Doc threw the knife into the snake. Should have been used when he saw Mona “ Boinggg “

[@dangreene3895]

When i was a kid I used to read those books, so I was excited when this movie came out needless to say I was very disappointed.

[@reignfire85]

I saw this on TV as a kid, really liked it (I still think the final fight, with its various styles being named on screen, is actually kind of entertaining and the whole 'you'll be rehabbed' was amusing) and I always wondered why I never saw a sequel. Character definitely deserves a reboot, just make it a streaming mini-series and not a big-budget single film.

[@jasonsantos3037]

Fun fact Doc Savage used to be called the Superman before Superman.

[@willmfrank]

@@jasonsantos3037 His name is Clark Savage and he has a Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic. are we sensing a pattern?

[@jasonstarks3796]

That last bit was comedy gold!

[@davepaisley7675]

"This is the law here, Harvard man" SMACK!! I'm totally using this with all the lawyers I know.

[@GnrMilligan]

OK, so I admit I only came here for Doc Savage. So a Like was err, likely. But your presentation was a pleasure to watch. A Like, and a Sub for you Sir!

[@DarkCornersReviews]

Thanks. Welcome!

[@simplesimon755]

This movie looks like like a far less funny version of The Venture Bros.

[@masercot]

The books might not use all the sidekicks in one adventure. Sometimes all five were involved but, towards the middle and end of the one hundred plus book run, they started leaving some of them out.

[@baldeagle5297]

Monk and Ham were the ones you could count on being there.

[@masercot]

@@baldeagle5297 I seem to recall that. It was sad because I identified strongly with Renny...

[@ButcherSevenActual]

I immediately recognized the great voice of Paul Frees, who was also the narrator for War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, and the alien voice in Earth vs The Flying Saucers

[@RavenHouseMystery]

For some reason, film critic legend Leonard Maltin gave this film a glowing review, saying that it came out at the wrong time. I think he's just a huge fan of Doc Savage and was happy to see any film about him. I understand that Dwayne Johnson is still trying to get a Doc Savage film done and he would be great in the role. As for the director, Jake Kasdan has done some good action/comedies with Johnson (including the new Jumanji films) and I think that would be a good fit for Doc Savage.

[@ericalbany]

The worst thing...when a send-up fails to launch.

[@dallasron51]

I haven’t thought about Ron Ely recently so I looked him up on Wikipedia. The last few years of his life were very sad. I always enjoyed his work. There was something very positive about him, natural charisma.

[@skipdonaghue9451]

This was on BBC Two a fair bit in the 80s. Our Da loved it! So we did too!

[@marksaint2936]

Loved this movie as a kid!

[@doltsbane]

Same problem with the Alec Baldwin Shadow film. If they had kept the tone of the first fifteen minutes it would have been a great movie, but they just couldn't take the material seriously and the jokey stuff ruined it.

[@teammeteamus.8315]

Yes! I had high hopes at the start of that film, but it just deflated. I really loved the set dressings and costumes, but that’s not enough to carry a film

[@willmfrank]

@@doltsbane Also recent events make watching Alec Baldwin wielding handguns somewhat... uncomfortable.

[@stevenwilliams6602]

This movie was a staple of Saturday afternoon and late night TV circa back in the early-to-mid '80s.

[@BugleCoops]

Fantastic, I was born the year this was made and recall watching it with my grandad in the mid 80's... Happy memories!!

[@WonderSausage]

The fanedit of this, "Doc Savage The Man of Bronze - Detarnished! by Slark" is magnificent, if you can hunt it down, it's well worth it.

[@nortondumont9711]

Indubitably.

[@nortondumont9711]

Indubitably.

[@HeavyMetalTones]

This along with Condor Man which i saw at the movies. Are guilty secrets of mine. Used to love them on Tv at Christmas

[@a.champagne6238]

Condorman was a childhood favorite of mine but I'm sure it'd be awful if I watched it now. Hopefully, Robin does a review.

[@richardjohnson9543]

I remember seeking this on TV as a little boy. I made a point of checking it out because it starred the guy who played Tarzan, wasn't disappointed

[@marSLaZZ66]

"Killed by a golden shower" !!

[@bpark222]

That’s pretty amazing timing, I literally read 3 hours ago that Ron Ely just died, not even really look for that info just ran across it, then got on KZbin just now to see dc did a review 2 days ago on doc savage. Eerily uncanny

[@DarkCornersReviews]

Not the first time this has happened to us...

[@glowmentor]

7:52 eh!? Is this irony? The same people DID get their hands on Indiana Jones and Star Wars! 😂😂😂

[@Elephant2024]

Saw this as a kid. For some reason the 'Mona you're a brick' line stood out for me.😆

[@achillebrunet6023]

Absolutely loved the sound effects at the end

[@lyndatuttle]

I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out.

[@lyndatuttle]

Buckaroo Bonzi reminds me of this.

[@louiehernandez1477]

I swear I saw this movie every weekend on tv when I was a kid. Remember loving this movie.

[@Neville60001]

Fun fact there was to have been a 1965 TV series about this character, starring Chuck Connors ( _The Rifleman_ ) as Doc, and be set in the present day; it never got off the ground (the demeanor was to be serious as well.) It eventually was adapted as a one-shot comic book from Gold Key comics.

[@dwaynehendrickson8854]

Dear lord, those added sound effects at the end were the cats pajamas!!!

[@baldeagle5297]

I always wished Clint Walker could have been Doc Savage. It may have taken a vocal coach, but he was the most pulp-accurate star. He had the size *and* the look.

[@onbearfeet]

I watched this movie on VHS as a kid while recovering from oral surgery, and I genuinely thought I'd hallucinated it until now. I was a big fan of the Shadow comic books and pulpy old radio shows, and then ... this happened. I can't believe you didn't even mention the John Philip Sousa soundtrack.

[@olinwilliams]

I loved reading these when I was an adolescent in the 1960s!

[@werewolf2000ad]

The pre-Star Wars 70s was just the absolute worst time to try and make a Doc Savage movie, alas.

[@nortondumont9711]

Ely was definitely perfectly cast. Rest In Peace, Doc. Guess we will all have to settle for an AI appearance in the future feature film whenever, if ever, it is made.

[@KellyKMc]

I actually saw this in the theatre when it was released.

[@gregevans6044]

Oh my gosh… Ron has died at 86

[@emmanuelwinner4149]

Lester Dent, the principle writer on the Doc Savage novels, knew that his hero with "the strength of Hercules and the morals of Jesus Christ" was a OTT even for pulp heroes, and included a lot of silliness , tongue in cheek, in the books. But he also kept his primary narrative threads (which could often get quite complicated) utterly serious. And the action sequences could actually get quite heavy and violent, yet still skirt the border of the absurd. He knew that the audience of pulp fiction was made up of both adolescents and adults; and Dent (and the other better writers of the series) knew how to balance their stories for both. Brought to film or TV, this would have shared some sensibilities with Doctor Who, especially the TV film reboot with Paul McGann. Instead, the George Pal Doc Savage is way out of control, turning everything into a childish joke. The response of Savage fans was enormous disappointment. The film failed on screen, it failed in efforts at syndication, it was the end of Pal and an end to the whole Doc Savage revival.

[@chessoc7799]

It probably helped I saw this as a kid. I liked the film then spent the next 20 or so years thinking what was that film? Its a shame the Doc got forgotten as he is a inspiration for modern comic and film tropes. The fortress of solitude ended up in Superman. The man of bronze became the man of steel in superman. Even the worlds best criminologist with his own crime lab became part of Batman.

[@wirikidor]

I'm GenX, and this was a kids movie, at least it was at the local flick where I grew up. I have often thought about the theme song and those snakes, but this is the first time in 40 years I've seen the footage again. This was great nostalgia.

[@jamesbrice6619]

Everyone i knew went to see Doc Savage and liked it. The movie was a COMEDY 😂

[@garylucas4341]

RIP Ron Ely, The Tarzan I grew up with.

[@MatthewBLamont]

Originally, there was going to be an adaptation of the Doc Savage story, LAND OF TERROR, with Jim Danforth doing the stop-motion dinosaur effects. It never got made and we got this. The reason why this film is catered to those who watch campy shows like the 1960s BATMAN show, was because of executive meddling. George Pal didn't want it to be campy to begin with.

[@CordellPotts]

I remember reading these books as teen in the early 90s and loving them. A few years later when I learned they had made a movie I geeked out and got my local video store to find a copy for me. I almost wish I'd never wanted to see it. The books were full of badass adventures, hot chicks, cool villains... The movie was a goofy comedy full of lame jokes and corny sound effects.

[@cpuuk]

As a kid I went to the cinema to see this (having watched Ron in Tarzan series). I liked the film, snakes were scary. Great theme song that still rings through my head to this day.

[@nigelprice3885]

Sorry to say Doc savage was fantastic I love it

[@JenMistress]

Instead of a special window, a better way to explain why he missed was he was taught how to shoot by Imperial Stormtroopers. Maybe if Star Wars was out, they could have gone with that. 😉😂🤣

[@helenj4902]

Ron Ely should have stuck with being Tarzan . Also, I believe your dad is probably the greatest scientist out there 🤣

[@heidifedor]

I thought he looked familiar, he also hosted a Name That Tune rip-off that featured a young Kathy Lee Epstein (Gifford).

[@helenj4902]

@@heidifedor that’s fun trivia! 😃

[@heidifedor]

@@helenj4902 I forgot to mention that the show was called, “Face the Music”.

[@heidifedor]

@@helenj4902 🤦‍♀️Actually, this is embarrassing, Kathy Lee was on Name that Tune and not Face the Music. But Ron Ely did host the latter.

[@1politicalcowboy]

I was lucky enough to be gifted the 1 of 100 poster of the cover original book. James Bama even signed it for me. Mr Bama was an incredible artist.

[@jimnasium452]

I'm reminded of Han Solo stepping on Jabba's tail to a *doink* sound effect. Fantasy, sci fi, or whatever that's just stupid.

[@tamlandipper29]

My god, you're right!

[@tomflorio3639]

Great job as always, but from the 8 minute mark forward I was laughing out loud!

[@Ryan-k9w]

"Killed by a golden shower.".. 😂

[@GreyhawkGrognard]

I was nine years old when this came out, and it was all over HBO. I loved it at the time, not realizing it was intentionally campy, and it's probably just nostalgia, but it still has a soft spot in my heart.

[@a.champagne6238]

I remember there was talk of a reboot with Ah-nuld as Doc back in the late 90's.

[@baldeagle5297]

Shudder. The Rock has also been put forward as Doc. Not as bad as Arnold, but...

[@originaluddite]

I still want to see it sometime. This is classic "lazy weekend afternoon watching repeats" fare.

[@doc_multiverse]

This has to be the grandfather of Buckaroo Banzai, sans the slide-whistles.