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Should airlines edit movies or allow nudity/sex scenes on-board?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:07 am
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:07 am
I've always expected the airlines to edit their in-flight movies. You know, cut out explicit sex scenes, nudity, airplane crashes, shite like that. But today, with Wi-Fi, anybody can log-in and view anything.
However, the airlines also contract with providers, like GoGo on American Airlines, to provide an on-board server with movies to watch. Yesterday, on a flight back to DFW, I logged in and sent out some reports, then decided to watch a movie, Bad Moms. I was sleepy and started the movie, wearing my headset, and dozed off right as it started. In a few minutes, a woman sitting one seat over (her 8 year old son was sitting in the middle seat), reached over and closed the lid on my laptop and tapped me on the shoulder. I took off my headphones and she told me she had closed the lid because I was watching full nudity and a male masturbating. I opened the lid and caught the last scene of a fully nude woman with a big hairy bush, and immediately stopped the movie. I apologized to her and she said she knew it wasn't my fault, but for both of us, it was the first time we'd ever seen full frontal nudity from an airline sponsored movie.
I was really embarrassed by that, as I would never knowing watch a movie with sex scenes and full frontal nudity in front of a child, and certainly not around adults I don't know in a public venue.
Should airlines edit these movies, or is it just the wild west now, and anything goes out in the public?
However, the airlines also contract with providers, like GoGo on American Airlines, to provide an on-board server with movies to watch. Yesterday, on a flight back to DFW, I logged in and sent out some reports, then decided to watch a movie, Bad Moms. I was sleepy and started the movie, wearing my headset, and dozed off right as it started. In a few minutes, a woman sitting one seat over (her 8 year old son was sitting in the middle seat), reached over and closed the lid on my laptop and tapped me on the shoulder. I took off my headphones and she told me she had closed the lid because I was watching full nudity and a male masturbating. I opened the lid and caught the last scene of a fully nude woman with a big hairy bush, and immediately stopped the movie. I apologized to her and she said she knew it wasn't my fault, but for both of us, it was the first time we'd ever seen full frontal nudity from an airline sponsored movie.
I was really embarrassed by that, as I would never knowing watch a movie with sex scenes and full frontal nudity in front of a child, and certainly not around adults I don't know in a public venue.
Should airlines edit these movies, or is it just the wild west now, and anything goes out in the public?
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:09 am to HubbaBubba
Honestly, yes. If you've got a 6 year old sitting next to you, then their parent shouldn't have to highly inconvenienced by this.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:09 am to HubbaBubba
For me, I just don't watch any R-rated movie if I see a kid in any of the first 3 rows behind me.
I know that's probably overly cautious, but it's just not that important to watch a certain movie to me.
I know that's probably overly cautious, but it's just not that important to watch a certain movie to me.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:12 am to HubbaBubba
U.S. airlines usually do edit the movies but European airlines don't.
The movies I watch on United are edited. However if someone is using the WiFi to see movies through Netflix or other services like that then they won't be edited.
The movies I watch on United are edited. However if someone is using the WiFi to see movies through Netflix or other services like that then they won't be edited.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:12 am to HubbaBubba
Is it wrong that I would prefer more nudity/sex scenes and less children on flights?
This post was edited on 5/19/17 at 10:14 am
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:12 am to HubbaBubba
I think they should have flogged you and drug your arse off the plane...
On the question you asked, I don't think the airlines should necessarily edit the movies BUT they probably should consider limiting the choices available so that content like that is not available during flight...
Of course, someone will scream free speech or some crap...
On the question you asked, I don't think the airlines should necessarily edit the movies BUT they probably should consider limiting the choices available so that content like that is not available during flight...
Of course, someone will scream free speech or some crap...
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:14 am to HubbaBubba
It's 2017 you bigots, kids can choose their own genders so why can't they be exposed to hardcore pornography too?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:18 am to DaBike
quote:Streaming movies and services like Netflix are typically blocked by the in-flight Wi-Fi service.
However if someone is using the WiFi to see movies through Netflix or other services like that then they won't be edited.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:19 am to Malik Agar
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It's 2017 you bigots, kids can choose their own genders so why can't they be exposed to hardcore pornography too?
I know! I mean it's not like you were jerkin it in the seat. (j/k obviously)
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:21 am to HubbaBubba
Hell, Delta even edits the language in their movies.
I tried to watch Keanu on a flight. I had no idea what some of the cuss words even were. It made the movie really confusing
Should they? I really don't care, but it is their right to either choose to or choose not to.
I tried to watch Keanu on a flight. I had no idea what some of the cuss words even were. It made the movie really confusing
Should they? I really don't care, but it is their right to either choose to or choose not to.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:22 am to HubbaBubba
True story.
I used to travel to Asia all the time for work. On one flight, Brokeback Mountain was the in flight movie. Next to me was this Asian Grandpa that looked like he was just out of the rice fields about 200 miles outside of a major city (in China, about every 20 miles you go outside a city you go back about 50 years in time).
Anyway, you could tell that Papason had NEVER seen no shite like ole Heath and Jake were perpetrating on the big screen.
That was the funniest shite I've ever seen in my life watching his reaction to that movie.
I used to travel to Asia all the time for work. On one flight, Brokeback Mountain was the in flight movie. Next to me was this Asian Grandpa that looked like he was just out of the rice fields about 200 miles outside of a major city (in China, about every 20 miles you go outside a city you go back about 50 years in time).
Anyway, you could tell that Papason had NEVER seen no shite like ole Heath and Jake were perpetrating on the big screen.
That was the funniest shite I've ever seen in my life watching his reaction to that movie.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:24 am to HubbaBubba
Yes they should choose to, or just not offer those movies.
I feel as though on recent Delta flights I have taken that there was a disclaimer that the movie had been edited, but I could be recalling incorrectly.
I feel as though on recent Delta flights I have taken that there was a disclaimer that the movie had been edited, but I could be recalling incorrectly.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:26 am to HubbaBubba
No. You're responsible for your kid, not me.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:30 am to HubbaBubba
quote:
In a few minutes, a woman sitting one seat over (her 8 year old son was sitting in the middle seat), reached over and closed the lid on my laptop and tapped me on the shoulder. I took off my headphones and she told me she had closed the lid because I was watching full nudity and a male masturbating
Did she allow the man in the movie to finish before closing your computer's lid?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:30 am to HubbaBubba
I think they should offer only PG movies. I was on united or American with my daughter and her friend and they guy in front of us watched girl on a train on the tv implanted in the back of the seat in front of him so we could see everything. the sex scenes were inappropriate for children as was some of the violence/blood. I told the girls to get their books out and read so they didn't accidentally see the R rated content. It really made me mad.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:34 am to Blue Velvet
That's ridiculous. when your locked in a plane, what can a parent do to be "responsible" and keep the R rated content from being viewed by their child?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:39 am to berrycajun
Tell your kid not to look at it.
Swap seats with your kid.
Buy your kid window seats.
Leave your kid at home.
Tell your kid that nudity is natural and inoffensive.
I don't care.
I'm not responsible for your children, you are.
Swap seats with your kid.
Buy your kid window seats.
Leave your kid at home.
Tell your kid that nudity is natural and inoffensive.
I don't care.
I'm not responsible for your children, you are.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:41 am to HubbaBubba
quote:Yes, they should. Those films are not rated for children without parental supervision and parents have the choice of whether or not to expose their underage children to those things. When you're stuck on an airplane with a TV screen in your child's face, it's hard to force them to look away. Also, some children travel without a guardian, so they don't have parental permission or supervision in those cases.
Should airlines edit these movies, or is it just the wild west now, and anything goes out in the public?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:45 am to FooManChoo
Let's edit good movies for millions of Americans because a kid may see some (gasp!) breasts. Jesus Christ, you "think-of-the-children!", nanny-state helicopter parents ruin everything.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 10:50 am to Blue Velvet
quote:
Tell your kid not to look at it.
Swap seats with your kid.
Buy your kid window seats.
Leave your kid at home.
Tell your kid that nudity is natural and inoffensive.
I don't care.
I'm not responsible for your children, you are.
Don't be a dick.
Watch porn at home.
Don't fly on flights with kids.
Sit on the back row.
I don't care about your viewing 'rights'.
Act like a responsible adult.
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