Absolutely! though I tend to go to reading and audio before tv or filmsI can think of, heck sinse my first name is Luke you can imagine all the starwars jokes, (lucky I enjoy the original films).
Unfortunately, sinse there isn't a cinema close to where I am so seeing a film is a major journey I haven't been able to check out many of the more recent efforts like Jupiter Rising or Gravity, indeed I do confess generally I find films and tv have gone very flat and standardized and shiny, just churning out the same thing again and again, (god I hate super heroes, or at leastt super hero films).
I actually mostly watch tv series or older stuff on dvd, indeed I don't own a tv license. I've recently for example been watching some episodes of classic who at my parents, ---- which also ties in with many of the awsome doctor who dramas that are still being made about the original doctors, (particularly sinse sinse Steven Moffat took over in 2010 the thing has gone into a real slump, indeed I now consider there to be only ten encarnations of the doctor).
Though it's not scifi, I am watching buffy the vampire slayer at the moment, sinse back at the time it was popular I didn't get to see it and though i caught a couple of episodes they were much later on and actually gave me a bad impression of the series. Sinse however I adored firefly, and Buffy is also Joss Weaden I wanted to give it a go.
It's odd, usually in sf or fantasy books and tv series I have a keen interest in the world and history and rules, indeed if you asked me what made a perfect sf or fantasy story it would be realistic, well rounded characters in fantastical situations, (hence why I hate vanilla super heroes). Buffy I'm finding odd, sinse the dialogue and situtions are just plane witty and the characters are very well put together,but the vampires and demons and such haven't yet really been other than I'd expect, for all the bad guys are awsome!
Before Buffy I watched through all of Deep space 9. I'm not a huge startrek fan, I don't know how the enterprise works or what Vulcans have for breakfast, but as a tv series and as characters I like I do often enjoy it, albeit I consider myself far more a main like Whovian, ie, a doctor who fan, than a trecky.
I particularly enjoyed ds9 the fact things had consequences and that they couldn't just roll on to the next planet, also the very well written characters in many situations. Previously I'd always held next gen to have the best cast and seen Sisco as quite dull from the episodes of Ds9 I'd seen before, but that was definitely not the case when I got the full story of the dominian war.
The only slightly odd thing about Ds9 is that this was my second watch through the hole thing,because my first was back in 2008-09 when i was first starting recovery, and honestly there were big swathes I watched but have utterly no memory of at all just from the state I was in while watching.
I also get together with my brother who is an anime fan and watch anime series. Unfortunately for many people "anime" has come to mean just stuff with lots of guns or ninjas or robots and endless battles, but actually "anime" in Japan just means animated, and there are anime of every genre from sf to drama to comedy. My brother tends to pick and choose genres, but find stuff that is on average a good story whether it's pure commic, horror or an action fest, indeed when I asked him why he watched so much annime when he didn't have a genre preference, he said that it was just because Western tv and films were so flat most of the time.
We just finished Attack on titan, which has to be one of the most unique takes on giants I've ever seen, indeed it's sort of hard to classify whether it's sf, appocalyptic or fantasy, sinse it's about a world ravaged by huge 60 foot tall giants and the people who fight them.
We now have started future diary, which is a much different series set in the modern day, about a bunch of people who get diaries that can predict each other's actions and play a deadly game to see hwo is left. It's not as serious, but the gameplay and maneuvering is good fun, indeed as a Whovian Timy Wimy future prediction complexities are definitely something I like. We'll continue when i next visit my brother, though we might take a break to watch the next series of game of thrones (as we've both read all the books), which I am very pleased to say is one thing that certainly isn't! flat. Indeed it's odd, though i find myself having to zone out on highly frequent occasions due to my genophobia for something like Game of Thrones, (Indeed I suspect there may be chaps here who find it triggering), sinse bad stuff happens, sinse not everyone is safe, and sinse it is! all about courage I'd rather watch that and find it in many ways far less depressing than some usual predictable drek. Indeed I love stories where I am emotionally invested in what is going on because it's happening to believable well put together people, and while Game of thrones, like several anime I've seen (Madoca and Elfen Leid for example), is down right harrowing, at the same time I'd rather! have that than the "Everyone is safe" mentality.
I could probably go on at great lenth about films and tv, and especially if you add books into the mix (hell I write reviews for fantasybookreview.co.uk, most recently an article on escapism, and a tribute to Sir terry Pratchett ). I could also definitely! talk at length about Doctor who, but I'll probably stop here before this post gets waaaaay too long.
