James Bond T-SHIRTS!

Thunderfinger · January 2020

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Thunderfinger wrote: »

Do you make these, @RichardTheRich? There was someone here who made t-shirts before, the name escapes me. Something with Victoria.

Not yet, @Thunderfinger.

If you ever do, can you make them in marzipan?

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

I would try.

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

X3MSonicX · January 2020

Agent_99 wrote: »

Oh AliExpress, never stop being weird and random.

Oh My God, I'd love to have one of those! Tried to look for it on the internet, but had no success :'(

Agent_99 · January 2020

I've just found my new favourite Redbubble shop.

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Lots more of this sort of thing: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Pilots-Notes/shop

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

006.95 REDUCED FROM 007

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(Photo from thunderballs.org)

[Brought up by @Torgeirtrap and given context by @ggl007's post
on the Rare and unseen Bond photos , images and posters discussion.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bog4fTgtkE&list=PLleqyJmqBjn9YgBdcPuauroI7z5dtOpCK

ggl007 wrote: »

A crazy comedy recorded in 1965: https://www.discogs.com/Marty-Brill-Larry-Foster-James-Blonde-The-Man-From-TANTE/release/944723

Bond is Jewish and works for M (for Mother)...

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

Q

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X3MSonicX · January 2020

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

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Damn the t-shirts. That woman is incredibly gorgeous.

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

Can't disagree, @X3MSonicX. She has a presence on these pages, definitely.

Scrabble
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Agent_99 · January 2020

Available from H&M

RichardTheBruce · January 2020

Hmm. You'd think there's be a vanity license plate for that, @Agent_99. Anyway,

Is Billie Eilish too cool for the James
Bond franchise?

The 18-year-old will be the youngest singer to do a 007 theme
but she might prove too contemporary for one of the dustiest
film franchises around
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/14/billie-eilish-too-cool-james-bond-franchise-007-theme-song
Stuart Heritage | @stuheritage | Tue 14 Jan 2020 16.06 EST

Billie Eilish in April 2019. Photograph: Amy Harris/Invision/AP

No Time to Die already has a lot going for it. It’s got an exciting director, a promising trailer and – if it adheres to the good/bad/good/bad pattern of James Bond films that began all the way back with Goldeneye – it might mean that Daniel Craig goes out on a high. And now there’s another potential plus in its favour: Billie Eilish is doing the theme tune.

What’s especially exciting about this news is that, compared with the last couple of insipid – though admittedly Oscar-winning – efforts, Billie Eilish is refreshing. She’s young. She’s authentic. She has a signature sound that doesn’t automatically align with the overwrought warbling of, say, Sam Smith. The history of the James Bond franchise contains a smattering of fantastic outliers – "Live and Let Die", "A View to a Kill", "We Have All the Time in the World" – that have flourished precisely because they haven’t hewed to the ossified blueprint of what constitutes a Bond theme. If this song is as good as the director and producer are promising, then we could really have something special on our hands.

Better yet, a title like No Time to Die is a songwriter’s dream, in that lots of things rhyme with the word “die”. Daniel Craig’s Bond tenure has been littered with some truly abysmal titles that were no use to the musical art whatsoever. No wonder so many of them had their performers squirming around loopholes. Nothing rhymes with “Casino Royale”, so Chris Cornell sang a song called "You Know My Name". Sam Smith, knowing that any song entitled Spectre would have had to at some point use the word “hectare”, chickened out and sang Writing’s on the Wall instead. Faced with the abomination that was Quantum of Solace, Jack White just made up his own Bond title with "Another Way to Die". Only Adele took on the mantle of writing a song named after the actual film, and even she screwed it up by rhyming “sky fall” with “crumble”. So this is a golden opportunity for Eilish. No Time to Die is an open goal of a title, and she has the chops to really make it work.

However, let’s not get carried away here. This is James Bond we’re talking about, so we should never underestimate the franchise’s tendency to bungle a sitter. Because, yes, Billie Eilish is authentic and unique and unwilling to turn in a traditional theme. But that doesn’t automatically mean it’ll be any good. Remember when they got Madonna in to jazz up the Bond theme as a genre? Remember how horrible that was? Remember how "Die Another Day" sounded like a bad song being fed through a worse Bluetooth connection? Or remember how bad "Another Way to Die" was, with White almost rapping his verses and then Alicia Keys using the chorus to make a noise like she’d just found a dead snake in her bed? Remember Sheryl Crow? Of course you don’t.

And that’s the danger with No Time to Die. James Bond is such a creaky old antique of a franchise that change has to come slowly. A nudge here. A bottle of Heineken there. Altering the direction of the Bond films is like piloting a cruise ship. Every change of course has to be slow and incremental. Do a handbrake turn and you’ll kill everyone. Eilish’s minimalistic brand of clicks and whooshes might be good by itself but there’s a real risk it’ll be like painting Pikachu on a Chippendale when it’s set to the hoary old pervert psychedelia of the film’s opening titles.

Plus, as much as I hate to say it, one thing has got me really worried about Eilish’s participation in all this. When her involvement was announced, she released a statement saying: “It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way. To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honor. James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I’m still in shock.”

Did you catch that? Billie Eilish thinks that James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. No, it isn’t. It’s trad and naff and a full 50% of its instalments are absolutely terrible. Even Daniel Craig wanted out at one point, and he actually is James Bond. This statement shows a worrying lack of taste, especially when the Mission: Impossible films exist. Maybe Eilish should try soundtracking the next one of those instead.