Came home on Saudi Arabian airlines the other day. On the whole not a bad airline really. The seats we actually far enough apart for me not to have my knees crushed.
The movie selection on the server was quite small and what they did have had been censored for their own rules. Some of the things they censored would seem quite odd to most people who don't know the country.
In Iron Man2 there are women wearing sleeveless dresses which shows the arm from the shoulder down. In the censored version the arms were blurred out. Very distracting.
In the movie Tropic Thunder they have blurred out a statue of Buddha. Now to me that seems a little odd. According to the web this is due to the fact that Islam prohibits most types of statues and frowns on others. However the statues exist in the real world and in my opinion they're only drawing attention to the fact by blurring them out in movies.
In both cases I saw I think they drew more attention to the details they didn't like by blurring them out. Wouldn't it have been better just not to have the movies or delete the scenes completely.
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