Please Lord Kill Me Now!

You're right. Oftentimes, we look at things that were made twenty years ago and say "that sucks," but mainly because the music video genre was very young at the time and people hadn't honed their sense of what a good video was.

This video is well beyond saying that. It is UNBELIEVABLE how much Carl's video sucks. In fact, the top minds in the world, mobilized for the purpose of creating a sucky video, would be hard-pressed to come up with anything that sucked that bad.

One has to wonder about the guy if he currently has that posted on his website. Carl, have you NO concern about your image?

That was G-R-E-A-T-!!!!! Carl Lewis making out in a hot tub/sauna with an overweight old woman...only in 80's videos!!! And he did a heckuva job on 'Who wants to be a Millionairre' too...Hahahahaha....that was great watching him sewat and stall under the pressure. His acting role in 'Atomic Twister' looked and sounded so phony and forced!! He sounded much better 'Alien Hunter.' That sire almost makes me feel sorry for Carl.

Now come on, let's cut the guy some slack. After all, Elvis Presley, Victor Mature and Tony (yondah lies da castle of my foddah) Curtis didn't start out as great - or even so much as crappy - actors (and they didn't get a damn sight better, either), but somehow they became stars. What say we give ol' Carl a chance?

(several minutes later)

On second thought, after having actually seen the video ... somebody please put him out of his misery. This is to date the world's strongest argument for euthanasia.

I hear he hangs out on the message board at letsact.com, gives pointers on up and coming actors, and spews off about who is getting plastic surgery.

I liked it!

"ne-ver break-it-up... break-it-up... Breakitup!...

i fell to the floor after watching all those videos and acting reels... i couldn't believe this stuff is for real...

darkness wrote:

I saw Carl on "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" about 2 years ago and he had a "partner" (yes, it was a man) with him and his hair was corn-rowed and he looked pretty awful. He looked like a male prostitute that was past his prime. The thing is that Carl is only about 43 yo now, and he just looked old and very greasy and shiny.

It was too bad since it was Celebrity Millionaire and Carl is not a celebrity any more.

If you go back to the main menu, it shows the entire clip of Carl on millionaire and has him talking about his acting career and the gigs he has lined up. then you can watch them in his acting reel! i love the atomic twister, and especially him as a pimp and the fighting the karate man. all are SOOO bad that they are AWESOME!!!

...and another thing, what's with those lyrics?

"Never break-it-up, break-it-up, break-it-uuUP!"

What does THAT mean? Oh, I guess maybe he's talking about the "human chain." Never mind, it still sucks.

I love the way he looks just like Grace Jones in "A View to a Kill." He's got the same makeup and everything.

carl lewis cannot be gay. he totally scored with the hottest lady at the gym.

That was mighty weird... I was transfixed, yet kind of disgusted at the same time. Now that song is stuck in my head...

Perhaps he put this on the site to poke fun at something he did long ago. How many times have you heard people say "I can't believe I did that!" and have a good laugh about whatever it was? I don't think for a second that Carl is taking this stuff seriously- I think he was going for the "camp" factor. Anyway, it was fun!

That was wrong. Just wrong, and horrible. I will never click on another letsrun link again.

The slo-mo long jump footage in the video is cool to watch. As are the races Lewis has in the "running" section of his site.

One policy I have is this: I never let somebody's behavior outside their field obscure what they acomplished IN their field. He did some awesome, awesome stuff, and it's actually really inspiring for me to watch some of it on that website.

Lewis was a very, very special runner. We could all learn a lot from how he approached the sport and how he ran his races. He won and won and won. Watch him and learn.

I don't know what he was thinking with that video. He has horrible taste and little talent as a non-sports entertainer. I agree that it is a mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous. But you know what? What other music videos that you know of have track footage like that in them? None, making it automatically awesome.

mdr wrote:

But you know what? What other music videos that you know of have track footage like that in them? None, making it automatically awesome.

Interesting digression. I hope Bob Kennedy makes an 80's video. Or Alan Culpepper.

That Kerry Guy wrote:

That was wrong. Just wrong, and horrible. I will never click on another letsrun link again.

Well, maybe you should try watching it with your eyes all screwy and a marble up each nostril, while flailing your wrists about like a chipmunk and muttering "fu fu fu" over and over with a glazed, exasperated expression on your face. I'm pretty sure that would help.

:D

Thank you for calling our attention to this budding talent.......with the current trend towards gay oriented reality TV shows we've been searching far and wide for fresh new talent to take us to the top of the charts....

Carl Lewis is SOOOOOO ready for primetime! With a little refinement and training we're sure we can teach Carl to lip synch using his rectum.

Carl has also taught us a valuable lesson in fiscal responsibility......we now know that we can save valuable money by having our music video actors/entertainers wear the same outfits. Who would have thought that male and female entertainers could share the same costumes and make up tips?!?!?! (OK, if we had been more attentive we would have seen this gold mine of an idea long ago when it first made its debut in men's and women's figure skating.) We can confindently predict that soon you will be seeing many more men wearing scoop neck black spandex jazzercise outfits featuring those nifty sknny white patent leather belts.

Long live Queen Carl!!!!!

that video sucked

unbelivably good......

http://www.carllewis.com/video.acting.menu.3.html

check carl as pimp! that's right.....the guy who seems like HE would be the one getting pimped.

That Kerry Guy wrote:

while flailing your wrists about like a chipmunk

:D

say what?