To much sex and violence visible to kids in in-flight movies
 

As a United frequent flyer, I support comments in this article that there is too much sex and violence in in-flight movies that is visible to children. I find the countervailing comments of the Continental representative to be unpersuasive.

"A husband shoots his wife in the face, then drags her body from the pool of blood. A 12-year-old boy is crushed against a fence by a car. A teenager zips up her jeans in the bathroom after a sexual encounter.

These are images from movies shown to passengers recently on overhead screens in airlines, and they are sources of a new and vigorous outcry from parents, flight attendants and children’s advocacy groups who say that in-flight entertainment has become anything but family-friendly."



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/us...hp&oref=slogin

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To be honest, In this Debate the airline Can never win, In there it States that the airline Has fitted Personal Screen, "but the children can still look at other peoples Screens !"

:ugh:

So The only other option Is to Show The tweenies And Child freindly Shows, Wich then would Make this Debate Visa versa , Adults being sick Of wacthing children Program.

Have you ever seen the violence on children's programs?

I thought that movies released for viewing in the main cabin on airlines were subject to additional censorship. Is that still not the case?

I've never seen anything which I would consider disturbing on the main screen. For the multi channel screen I wouldn't allow my kids to watch anything I considered violent, but to shield them completely is unrealistic. I'm not concerned about a sex scene in a film but I draw the line when sex is mixed with violence, though I doubt you'd ever see that on a plane.

Avman is right about the violence in childrens film material, especially some of the older cartoons.

Most movies will have little effect on kids but some will, I recently caught my nine year old watching the 'Blair Witch Project' which he'd taken from my DVD collection, that movie scared the sh*t out of me so I'm glad I caught him whilst he was watching the starting credits.....

Yep, young minds can be impressed.

I was 6 when I first saw Star Trek - then and there I made it my intent to become a starship captain and join the Academy at Starfleet. Warp speed - THAT was for me!

Was rudely told later it was all rubbish and years since had to settle for a measley sublight jet instead.



Im still not over it.

If it's a modern seatback personal screen system, then the flight attendants can lock-out anything unsuitable for children for that seat, so a child can't select it.
If it's an overhead broadcast, you're stuck with the airlines choice and standards.

Eboy you are perfectly free to choose an airline whose choices and standards wrt IFE are more in line with your own. I object to those who object to my right to choose which airline's IFE choices and standards are in line with mine.:hmm:

Ozzy