I would prefer entertainment to be more entertaining by simply viewing sex and nudity as less shocking.
There are huge social, psychological and emotional components to human sexuality. The physical aspects are just one piece of the equation.
There are consequences to making it all too prosaic to have everything on display and they aren't all positive by any stretch of the imagination.
I have spoken to someone who went to nudist colonies. He told me outsiders always imagine it's all sex, all the time but it absolutely is the opposite of that. Most people aren't especially sexy when running around naked to begin with and when you normalize nudity, it further reduces the sexual element.
Just because you aren't familiar with the literature doesn't mean I'm making stuff up here.
Some of the most shocking and suspenseful films ever made had little to no nudity or violence. They did so through good writing and production. Throwing a bunch of blood or boobs on the screen is cheap and easy and attracts like-minded audiences. Making quality entertainment is hard.
Also, thinking that blood and gore and nudity never existed in entertainment before the modern age and that the "old" values were puritanical is simply false. Shock value has existed as long as there have been books printed, movies made, and photos captured. The things published today have nothing on some of the illustrated gore from the 16th century.
* Giganormous battles between robots, demons, superheroes, mutants or aliens in CG (puppets/masks/costume/makeup is ok).
* Two mortal enemies that need to coöperate (no you're not going to bring a new angle to this, and no it won't be funny).
* Anything including a magical database or magical computer programs that will do whatever you need right now.
* Time-travel in non-scifi movies/series (e.g. super-assassin in Jason Bourne traveling from Rome to Athens and arrives five minutes after Jason Bourne was spotted).
Maybe then we could get some movies that depend on good writing...or maybe I'm just dreaming...
Maybe they don't produce the next Game of Thrones, but maybe they make their own in-house Pixar, or maybe they could try to do either or both and still fail as a production company.
Let their own employees tell them how they are screwing things up for their power users. Perhaps they could win back some of the market share for high end producers.
It would be interesting to see if there was a mandate to use Apple gear in the render farm.
The market is already saturated with entertainment that is little more than shock value. There’s a reason that channels like GSN, RFD, MeTV, etc... have growing audiences. As some point people want their entertainment to be entertaining, not a stream of sensory overload.
If Apple goes all-in in this programming strategy, we’ll have a better idea how popular this sort of thing really is.