Showing R rated movie on QF59

[tomlee1986]

According to News Reports - this is QF 59 from SYD to HND and the flight was forced to show a movie for everyone as the IFE failed in flight. The movie is Daddio with Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson. Sadly this is a daytime flight when passengers would be mostly awake...

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/passenger-claims-qantas-played-an-xrated-film-to-entire-flight/news-story/21a8c95380e77adf90b5ab7fcea6776f

Wikipedia info on the movie: Daddio (film) - Wikipedia

 

[AIRwin]

Flight number should have been QF69?

 

[justinbrett]

Flight number should have been QF69?

You thought long and hard to come up with that, didn’t you?

 

[Justinf]

Absolutely disgusting. What streaming platform is this movie on so I know to avoid it in future?

 

[Saab34]

but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids on-board.

Sure Sure. Everyone minus the outraged normals who race to the internet to post the outrage.

The world is always outraged about something. It’s Kmart one minute, Qantas the next.

 

[DejaBrew]

"It featured graphic nudity and a lot of sexting – the kind where you could literally read the texts on screen without needing headphones."

As opposed to the type of sexting requiring headphones so as to be able to read the texts on screen...?

Also, this quote from the article...

As a result, Qantas said staff asked passengers what movie they would like to watch, resulting in the movie Daddio (2023) being played to everyone on the flight.

So... they're suggesting that Qantas flight crew didn't unilaterally select an inappropriate movie. Rather, they asked passengers what they wanted to watch and said passengers selected Daddio. I smell a beat up.

 

[moa999]

Pretty poor judgement by someone in the crew.
Albeit I'm surprised the words survived the normal pretty conservative editing process.

 

[milehighclub]

Albeit I'm surprised the words survived the normal pretty conservative editing process.

Qantas never edits anything - they are shown exactly as intended and leaves it up to the viewer to decide if they wish to watch it

 

[justinbrett]

Although the R rating is the US, not Australia, which equates to a MA rating here.

I don’t actually think they have R rated movies in the IFE and if they did, I would think they are edited down (many true R rated films have a tamer version for certain markets that won’t permit the content. Even Australia FTA stations often use the lower classification versions).

 

[oz_mark]

Although the R rating is the US, not Australia, which equates to a MA rating here.

I don’t actually think they have R rated movies in the IFE and if they did, I would think they are edited down (many true R rated films have a tamer version for certain markets that won’t permit the content. Even Australia FTA stations often use the lower classification versions).

Yeah. I'd never heard of the movie, but looking it up it is rated MA in Australia.

 

[tomlee1986]

Although the R rating is the US, not Australia, which equates to a MA rating here.

I don’t actually think they have R rated movies in the IFE and if they did, I would think they are edited down (many true R rated films have a tamer version for certain markets that won’t permit the content. Even Australia FTA stations often use the lower classification versions).

This is according to IMDB: Rated R for language throughout, sexual material and brief graphic nudity.

Daddio (2023) - Parents guide - IMDb

Daddio (2023) - Parents guide and Certifications from around the world.

m.imdb.com

 

[tomlee1986]

Yeah. I'd never heard of the movie, but looking it up it is rated MA in Australia.

this is from Sydney film festival last year: Unclassified 18+

Daddio — Sydney Film Festival

Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

www.sff.org.au

 

[justinbrett]

This is according to IMDB: Rated R for language throughout, sexual material and brief graphic nudity.

Daddio (2023) - Parents guide - IMDb

Daddio (2023) - Parents guide and Certifications from around the world.

m.imdb.com

That’s a US rating. Consistent with MA here from the description.

NC-17 is the US equivalent of Australian R. It’s very rare.

this is from Sydney film festival last year: Unclassified 18+

Daddio — Sydney Film Festival

Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

www.sff.org.au

That just means it didn’t get a rating for the film festival.

 

[oz_mark]

this is from Sydney film festival last year: Unclassified 18+

Daddio — Sydney Film Festival

Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

www.sff.org.au

This is from the the classifications Australia which would be the official classification here.

DADDIO

www.classification.gov.au

 

[RooFlyer]

Classification is a red herring. The films content just wasn't suitable to be shown on all screens on the flight, with no option to turn it off (that sounds odd). The crew obviously didn't know what the pax had 'voted' for (or you'd hope they didn't know).

After a while it was taken off and another film shown. From the report:

Qantas confirmed that when it became clear the movie was not appropriate for all ages, the crew attempted to fix the screens for customers who did not want to watch it.

However, when they realised this was not possible, the film was changed to a children’s movie instead.

A er, mistake (for want of a better expression ) but poor judgement by the crew, it seems.

 

[jb747]

More likely to boring than anything else.

 

[DejaBrew]

with no option to turn it off (that sounds odd).

Agree, this doesn't sound quite right. And even if it was, you can't tell me there was no way to put something over the screen (i.e. in the event that a parent wished to prevent their child from watching the screen in front of them).

 

[justinbrett]

Classification is a red herring.

Not really. The OP article said it was X rated (ie, literal cough). There’s a whopping difference between showing that to children vs an MA film.

Obviously neither are cool but if it was the former I’d say QF would be in a world of hurt. Of course that didn’t happen because that would be ridiculous.

 

[tomlee1986]

This is from the the classifications Australia which would be the official classification here.

DADDIO

www.classification.gov.au

Thanks for the info from the classification site!!

 

[DejaBrew]

Not really. The OP article said it was X rated (ie, literal cough). There’s a whopping difference between showing that to children vs an MA film.

Obviously neither are cool but if it was the former I’d say QF would be in a world of hurt. Of course that didn’t happen because that would be ridiculous.

I mean... realistically it sounds like the passengers were simply shown the modern-day equivalent (by today's standards, at least) of the old midday FTA tele-movie.

Sarcasm aside, I'd love to know how many passengers spoke up about the unsuitability of the film. Leaving it run for an hour before switching film choice sounds a bit unlikely (unless it took that long for people to decide that the film was too racy for general viewing).