20 Movie Scenes That Should've Been Cut

Moonraker is about as unserious as James Bond movies get, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's such a thoroughly extra film in its bones, and at least wrings plenty of kooky fun out of its novel Bond-in-space premise.

There is one moment that just goes too damn far, though, and that's the infamous pigeon double-take.

During the outrageously daft sequence where 007 (Roger Moore) drives a hovercraft gondola - or "Bondola," as fans affectionately call it - around Venice, director Lewis Gilbert cuts to a clip of a pigeon watching the mayhem unfold.

But not content to leave it there, Gilbert had his editor tinker with the clip, rewinding it and playing it back again to give the impression that the pigeon did a double-take at Bond speeding past.

It's terrible, akin to some kid mucking about with Adobe Premiere for the first time, except it was in a huge movie in one of cinema's biggest franchises and passed through countless checks and balances before making its way to our eyeballs.

Many of the other maligned moments from the Moore era at least had something cool to compensate, but this is an isolated moment whose erasure would only improve both the scene and the film.