Rata Perata: Anyone up for a late-night Children's movie?

When I watch movies, I prefer to watch them on my laptop; I detest watching movies on TV - in fact, I can't remember when I last watched a movie on TV. I do remember what it was - Men of Honour - and I got pissed off by having to endure 30 minutes of advertising to watch a 90 minute movie.

If it was only the advertising (TV stations have to make money somehow) I might have been able to live with it... but on the laptop, I can watch the movie of my choice (it would be very rare for me to be unable to procure an English movie popular enough to be shown on TV), at the time of my choosing (and not of the TV stations), at a place of my choosing (not only where the TV is), and have the ability to pause and continue (or even rewind) at will.

Today I noticed another progressive reason that makes TV movies even more unattractive: the powers-that-be have recently decided to censor scenes where people are consuming alcohol or tobacco (or maybe it's enough even if the product is visible - hard to say). This is ridiculous!

There's a difference between banning advertising (*1), and censoring scenes from movies... it's clearly restrictive on film makers' creativity to insist that they produce movies where none of the characters smoke or drink, and unfairly demanding of their creativity to still expect the movie to be realistic and interesting (unless it's a documentary of a monastery or a children's movie or some such). To censor scenes just deprives viewers of the full entertainment of the movie.

Maybe it's true that children can be influenced to try alcohol or tobacco by seeing it portrayed glamorously on TV - but I think they're far more likely to be influenced by the behaviours they see at home, as well as peer pressure from their friends. Why not use movie ratings and let parents decide if they will allow their children to watch the movie or not?

Rata Perata! (sic!)

(*1) Which I also think has been taken to the pointless extreme of denying people access to information that can help them make informed decisions