For sure. Like, totally. 

Literally all art is subjective though? 

i don’t dismiss your perspective, but this is why music reviews as an industry are... i don’t know. almost pointless.

Something worth noting is that for those wanting to check out Spy X Family, the manga is available to read legally via Shonen Jump’s $2.99 a month subscription. This includes new issues releasing same day as Japan (And the three most recent issues are free to read even if you don’t have a subscription):

I wasn’t expecting an anime movie review at The AV Club but I do appreciate it.

Pitchfork weren’t just posers, they were poseurs...which is the poser's poser .

I remember another famous review on another media site.  It was 2011 and we hadn’t yet known about that sweet laurel canyon sound. 

I do find it mildly hilarious that Pitchfork accused others of posing. There’s an irony that I’m sure was lost on them considering the devotion to Radiohead, a band formed in 1985.

I didn’t know Pitchfork got shutdown. Bummer. It was the quintessential indie snob website that became popular when I was in college.

It certainly counts as “unfilmable”!

“I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream’ was made into a pretty good point-and-click puzzle video game in the 90s. Ellison worked on it and voiced AM.

Does The Illuminatus! Trilogy count as sci-fi or just insanity?

I don’t know if they’re necessarily “unfilmable” but I’d really like to see some Neal Stephenson novels as either movies or, more likely, a streaming/TV series. Specifically, I’d love to see “Snow Crash”. They may need to change up some of the themes a bit to make them a bit more approachable to everyone, but that…

This was going to be my suggestion. Though I think a Zones of Thought adaptation would probably have to start with A Deepness in the Sky. A Fire Upon the Deep really throws you in the deep end with the concepts right from the beginning.

This book was 30 years ahead of its time.

If you want to talk about unfilmable Harlan Ellison, I’d like to see someone try “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream”.

Yes! The sorta sequel with the spider civilization would be even better, but Vernor Vinge has a great cinematic style. 

For me, the Great Unfilmable is Gene Wolfe’s body of work, particularly the Book of the New Sun novels. They’ve got plenty of action and translatable visual spectacle, but everything that makes them really special, from the unreliable narrators to the beauty of the language to the time-travel shenanigans, could not…

Currently reading.

The challenge for the Left Hand of Darkness is that Genly is a misogynist. He is the sole representative of the gender-normative worldview through which the reader is challenged. Watching the protagonist struggle with distaste while saying that some of his genderless hosts are acting “womanly” is entirely the point.