I recently got back from a trip in which I had to engage in air travel (since I typically do not), and I was appalled at the fact that the movies were not edited to remove vulgar and obscene content. The last flight I had been on was several years ago. It has been standard practice in the airline industry for the past few decades to edit in-flight movies. However, with Hollywood’s big fuss over edited movie companies the past several years, it appears that in-flight movies are no longer edited.
So, my multiple hour flight on this Boeing aircraft had these awesome LCD touch screens. They not only control your seat’s reading light and headphone volume, but it is an on-demand digital entertainment system. There are dozens of TV shows, a couple dozen recent movies, a few thousand MP3s, and also games as well as see in-flight GPS updates. You pick and choose your in-flight entertainment. While I applaud the advanced entertainment technology on airplanes, I am disappointed that the movies were not edited. Half of the movies were rated R. How would you like your child to be sitting in the seat next to someone watching an R rated movie that shows graphic sex scenes? So are the eye covers they distribute so you can get sleep or are they to be used as blinders?
Despite popular belief, movies shown on airlines are NOT edited to remove vulgar and obscene content.
Solution: Take your own portable DVD player and bring along movies that you have edited for content so your kids can watch them. Not only will your DVD player have better video and audio quality, but you will have the enjoyment of watching movies that do not have vulgar language and do not have nudity.
How do I get edited movies? Well, you can make them yourself. You can edit your own movies by ripping the movie to your computer hard drive via AnyDVDHD, converting the files via TMPGEnc XPress, editing via Sony Vegas Video, and DVD creation via Sony DVD Architect. Then just burn the finished edited movie on a DVD-R. While I still advise to steer clear of R rated movies, this is a great way to edit your PG-13 and PG rated movies. You can be sure that movies are safe in your home so that your children will not pre-maturely encounter vulgar language in children’s movies such as Shrek, Harry Potter, or Jumanji as well as many Disney movies that are no longer family friendly.
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For the sake of protecting 1st Amendment rights, I have lost my freedom of choices. I can’t go anywhere w/o magazines, tv shows, sports events, or movies exploiting women. Is there someone w/ clout to ensure magazines are left at the magazine stands and not staring at us every time we stand in line at the store. I would like to go to a sporting event w/o thinking I just bought tickets to a ‘titty-bar’. And it would be great if the movie industry generated two versions of movies, uncut and another version w/o throwing naked women at us, sex scenes, or chain saw massacres cutting up naked women.