What's wrong with movies? The very question of what's wrong is wrong. The minute you say what's wrong, that's wrong. Because clearly it's not right. A person was created to use their mind proactively. Any form of entertainment which thinks for you is bad, because it diminishes your human hood. Your humanity is defined by using your mind to govern your life and to live as a useful, constructive, busy human being. Being busy with good things is life. But when we put ourselves in a position when our brain is on automatic pilot and someone else is thinking for us, it diminishes our mind. And it doesn't only diminish our mind for the duration, but it diminishes our mind for afterwards. (Rabbi Paltiel)
