Crew Showed MA15+ Movie to all PAX on QF59

[justinbrett]

Would the cabin crew really do a poll of every passenger to see what they wanted to watch? It sounds a bit unlikely.

Well I doubt the AEC got involved but a quick show of hands wouldn’t be out of the question. It’s not like they didn’t have time to kill.

QF definitely screen M rated movies on broadcast (ie on aircraft without individual IFE) and while a lower classification these still contain content not suitable for children.

 

[DejaBrew]

And then would status or cabin have more weighting in the poll?

I have visions of the CSM announcing how “…after a tightly fought contest scored by the flight crew as 1 x CL vote to the votes of all other passengers on the aircraft, we can confirm that Daddio has been declared the winner via a unanimous points decision over Despicable Me 4. So sit back, relax and enjoy the show!”

 

[Rabs97]

QF definitely screen M rated movies on broadcast (ie on aircraft without individual IFE) and while a lower classification these still contain content not suitable for children.

I find it weird that we such a hang up towards consensual sexual activity, MA15 and R ratings, but show wanton violence, which to me is far more damaging to children, on an M rating.

At worst a raunchy scene requires an awkward explanation. Violent films create a de-sensitising effect on kids and embed random violence in culture.

 

[Danger]

The New York Times has a story about it and it was even on the podcast 'Pod Save the World'.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the … nudity and sexting?

The Australian airline Qantas is apologizing after a recent flight from Sydney to Haneda Airport in Tokyo featured an R-rated movie shown on every screen. And, according to online comments from people who said they were passengers on the flight, the movie could not be turned off.

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A New York Times review of the film this year noted that their conversations grow more intimate, leading the cabdriver to share a distasteful anecdote about his first wife and his thoughts about what married men want in a mistress, while the passenger is “surreptitiously sexting her tongue-lolling lover.” The Times reported that the film was rated R for “bared breasts and barroom language.”