i dig this out and watch it tonight . i honestly think it must be 20 year since the last time i saw it . i remember it be a seriously flaw film . i do not remember it be this bad . i be absolutely aghast that a project with this much potential should have be mistreat so reprehensibly . who be i to blame for this . the 2 guy who write ( and i use that word loosely ) the script . the casting director who so terribly miscast at least 3 major character in the story . ( only 2 of them be among the amazing 5 . ) the director and who clearly refuse to take it seriously and and keep shove awful music on top of bad writing and bad act everywhere . ( i like the theme song but it should never have be use all the way throughout the entire film . ) don black and who should be ashamed at some of the lyric he write for that music . it figure that i should pull this out and less than a week after re read the comic book adaptation . the first 15 20 minute of the film more or less ( really and less ) parallel the first issue of the comic . a i watch it tonight and i keep wonder why be almost every single detail change . doc show up and then use his wrist watch remote control to open the safe and and the sniper bullet miss him by 5 inch because the refractive glass and be just about the only thing leave the same . i mean and if youre gon na do an adaptation and why in god name change everything . once they leave doc hq and virtually nothing be a it be in the comic ( which and give roy thomas and i figure probably follow the book ) . i read somewhere they actually combine element of 2 different novel into one movie . again why . i have hear it be change because they weren not able to secure the kind of budget they want . i look at the film and and think . lack of money in no way explain what i saw on the screen . you know and when people complain about joel schumacher and they should really take a look at this thing . the best thing i can say be and i think it would make a great double feature with the 1966 batman feature and probably a great triple bill with that and the 1980 flash gordon . all 3 film be silly . maybe we can blame the 1966 film ( and tv series ) for this . some fan have complain over the year that adam west batman ruin the image of comic book in the mind of generation of non comic fan . i think the same could be say for hollywood . i be remind of how many really and really bad film base on classic character have be make over the year and especially ( it seem to me ) in the late 70 and early 80 . charlie chan and fu manchu and tarzan and buck rogers and flash gordon and the lone ranger all murder by hollywood type who think and oh and comic book . so you know it suppose to be stupid . more like theyre the stupid one . what a waste of potential . let me say some good thing . despite the script and the directing and ron ely be great . when i read a doc savage story and i do not think of the james bama painting and i think of ely . bill lucking ( who later be a regular on the a team ) be terrific . eldon quick ( who i have see somewhere else and but can not recall where ) be terrific . paul gleason who i absolutely hat with a passion and a vengeance in the breakfast club ( teacher like the one he play should be ban from ever teach anywhere ) and may be the best of the amazing 5 in the film . pamela hensley though her part be almost unrecognizable from the original story be terrific . before she let her hair down and i also realize she look a hell of a lot like ardala valmar from those awful john calkin buck rogers strip i just read the other day . she get a big nose like ardala only not quite a pronounce . the comic ardala actually look more like the 1936 movie princess aura or cher . or maybe streisand . take yer pick . ( ardala actually get plastic surgery in the george tuska strip after and she be stun . ) paul wexler and funny enough and i saw just last week in a get smart episode . i wonder if he be anything like the character he be suppose to be play . i do not know and because that character sure wasn not in the movie the film take it title from .