A person could have many reasons for watching or abstaining from watching a movie. He or she may want to watch a movie because he or she thinks (rather feels) that the movies are a good way of appropriating and dispensing with his / her negative feelings and emotions. On the other hand, the person may want to watch the movie just for the sake of killing time and because he or she has nothing more valuable to do right then. The reasons why one should abstain from watching them would rarely be religious and are more likely to base on conflict of principle rather than of choice. A person may think that a movie takes a lot of time to watch – including the time when you had to get the movie from the store or download them.
Even if he does not know this, the person abstaining has the option to watch movies online free of cost with no set-up time involved at all, literally!