Suburban "garden apartments" are the most common type of multifamily housing in America.

Yet Office Space is the only film that's ever shown one onscreen.

These buildings are basically 2-4 story cardboard boxes surrounded by acres of parking.

Tens of millions of Americans live in apartment complexes like this, but they are so boring, so utterly anti-kino, that no director other than Mike Judge has ever bothered putting one in a film.

That actually isn't true.

>>211719412 (OP)
You think that's the only time that style of apartment has been in a movie?

>>211719538
Cite 3 (three) other examples

>>211719538
>>211719509
I genuinely cannot think of another instance

>>211719412 (OP)
that just looks like a regular duplex. there's a movie called Duplex, and there's Jane's house in Breaking Bad.

>>211719783
You don't know what a duplex is.

>>211719783
Anon, this >>211719501 is the same building...

>>211719860
i grew up in one from age 1 to age 16.

>>211719538
>>211719601
red rocket and florida project probably. oh and manchester by the sea. anything about trashy, poor, sad, or trashy poor sad people is almost guaranteed to have this

not a movie but honorary mention to the shield - they probably at some shithole version of this once every other episode

>>211719896
no you didn't, if it looked like that.

>>211719943
Florida Project features a run-down motel.

I'm specifically talking about the type of soulless apartment complex that exists to warehouse middle-class single people who don't live in major cities

They have names like "The Woods at Terra Vista Reserve"

>>211719601
The Puciper
My Favorite Red
Pucephone

>>211720316
what

>>211720316
also Urgomonger 3

>>211720228
oh shit that's right. i was even gonna mention no country for old men in that list but then i remember that was a hotel too. never actually watched all 3 of those movies

you may be hard pressed to find places like this on film, they are pretty bleak and boring and there's a fuckload of residential spaces all around so it'd be difficult to film in

my next honorary guess: body cam footage. i know for certain at least 1/4th of all shit goes down in the parking lot or the shared hallway of these places

friend dragged me along to one of these once so he could sell pot, it was like "the place at copper falls" (there is no water feature nor is there even a pond near it) and he ended up getting drawn on by a pre-pubescent niglet and got his weed stolen in exchange for counterfeit money with neon kanji on the folded in bits. don't know why i think anybody would want to hear that. oh well, good times

>>211719412 (OP)
the main character of Menace 2 society lives in one

Willow Creek Pointe
The Oaks at Riverwalk
Heritage Glen
Brookstone Commons
Sequoia Arbor Flats
The Bluffs at Arroyo Verde
Fox Run Terrace
Magnolia Grove Apartments
The Reserve at Meadow Glen

>>211719501
>Tens of millions of Americans

and here is when thirdies get mindblown by the idea there's ten times more americans than there is in their countries

>>211720126
yes I did and it was the other kind with the bottom entrance on the side. there's also another kind with the two front doors next to each other in the front yard.

they don't have to add every boring anti-kino thing to kinos

>>211720887
Yeah but the fact that the most common type of multifamily housing in America is completely nonexistent in film and TV is kinda weird

>>211720835
This chart expects me to believe there are still over 50 million Americans who aren't on the Internet? Nigger these people are out here lying to your face. Global population is 100Mil tops.

>>211720942
I barely ever see those, you must be a flyover.

>>211721278
Where do you live?

>>211719412 (OP)
fuck these places

if I ever live in one im going to kms as its obvious I failed

>>211721344
What's up with the dramatics, the location makes it awful not the actual housing itself.

1200sqft of that 15 minutes from a cool fun part of the city is awesome. 1200sqft of that 40+ minutes away in bumfuck surburbia is hell.

>>211721278
In "developed" states they just get rid pf the gardens and build them 10 stories tall.

>>211719501
I hate those things so much. Obama forced them to be built everywhere

>>211721596
>sharing a wall with loud fucks is awesome
>day and night

>>211721630
This is called a 5-over-1 and it's the second-most common type of multifamily housing in America. After a change in international building codes allowed developers to build wood-frame apartments up to 5 stories in the mid 00's these really took off.

Because of local anti-massing regulations, they usually have really ugly and tacky mixed-material facades.

The construction is just as shoddy as garden apartments, but they look slightly more "urban"

>>211721630
At least the ones at the top floors got some inspiring views.

>>211721630
Everyone I know has a house but ok fly over

>>211721905
Looks terrible. It looks exactly like a strip mall.

>>211721630
>>211721905
>But I've seen ones that are taller than five stories!
If they're taller than five stories, it means there's five stories of wood-frame residential sitting on 1-3 stories of solid concrete construction.

flyover cope threads bum me out
just accept your environment isn't kino and move on

>>211722029
Where do you live?

>>211722171
5-over-1s were actually created by Los Angeles property developers in the very early 2000s. They're more common in Southern California than probably anywhere else.

>>211719601
It’s heavily implied that Rust from True Detective lives in one. It’s not a house, but it has two levels and a yard.

>>211722029
a 1200 sq ft chipboard shack is not house because you paid 900k for it LA fag

>>211719412 (OP)
Hollywood movies are well known for featuring houses/apartments that are much nicer than the character could afford. I think it's projection to the rest of the world propaganda. People think it's cool to move to America but reality is you're probably going to be living in some cardboard apartment with a bunch of beaners as your neighbors if you move to California/USA.

Couple examples I could think of

40 Year Old Virgin
Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

>>211722335
hes a piss smelling new yorker
hes one step above a pajeet

>>211722335
at least that one has a pool
also OP seems about 2-4 story buildings. then you push it to bigger buildings in more populated areas. that's what I mean by cope

also
>Despite its name, the International Code Council is not an international organization, its codes are rarely used outside the United States,[7] and its regulations do not consistently follow international best practices.
kek

>>211721235
>thirdie mindbroken by the idea the united states is large

I think Giamatti's character in Sideways lives in one

>>211720942
>most common type of multifamily housing in America

maybe stop thinking about america at all if your sole source of information about america is the internet?

>>211723519
What type of multifamily housing is more common? Go ahead I'll wait.

>>211723555
the point is its a meaningless overqualified statistic that reflects nothing, my brown friend.

>>211719412 (OP)
It's just not kino. Period. Guillermo del Toro joked once about how every American in an apartment getting gassed would improve the lives of those Americans and everyone else.

>>211723622
>Oh shit I got caught with my pants down
Better luck next time

>>211723959
or i googled "most common type of multifamily housing in America" and the first result was this bullshit claiming large apartment buildings were "multifamily housing," which is utter nonsense to any actual american because unless we're sharing a bathroom, there is only one family per unit.

my brown friend.

>>211724250
Believe me, I'd love to live in your fantasy America where most people not living in SFH are in highrises or like 19th century row homes but it simply isn't true.

>>211722335
Under the silver lake features these

>>211724703
The point, my non-american, ESL chum, is outside of illegal immigrants, there is practically zero “multi family housing” in the United States, by definition.

So (you) should stop spending so much time thinking about America at all, if your only source of information is bullshit.

>>211725237
Multifamily is just developer-speak for an apartment building you fucking retard

>>211724889
Damn yeah I forgot about that

>>211725296
No, it isn’t. It is not a concept in the United States.

>>211725237
Holy shit you’re dumb. Multi family living is the most common housing for Americans.
Staying on topic, pic related seems way more likely to be featured in a TV or movie than garden style. I think it helps with character interactions like rom coms or thrillers.

>>211725564
Forgot pic

>>211725562
Holy based 70iqer, I can tell you voted Trump

>>211725564
>>211725610
Barely anyone, outside of illegal immigrants, in the United States shares a “home” with another family. You are brown.

I think the most kino is those belgian row houses
any kinos with those?

>>211725599
Yeah I agree. You don't get a lot of repeated unplanned encounters with your neighbors in a garden-style apartment, and you need those to make a sitcom work. That's one of the reasons people choose to live in them IRL. Park your car directly outside your building, one flight of stairs, and you're at your front door. No long hallways, no lobbies, no shared amenities (at least, not ones people actually use)

I think most scripted shows also indulge in a kind of aspirational urbanism, even when they're set in the suburbs. Characters live in lofts, brownstones, old walk-ups, quaint duplexes.... watching a show where a character lived in a garden apartment would be like watching a character work on an excel spreadsheet for two hours. We're watching this to escape from the mundanity of our lives, not to experience even more of it.

>>211725833
Yeah we get it, you really love saying asinine shit for attention and (You)s. Go troll somewhere else.

>>211725833
you are retarded

>>211726043
I can only assume the anon you're replying to was taking a literal interpretation of "multifamily," like multiple families cohabitating within the same housing unit, as opposed to living in different appartment units within the same complex.

>>211725998
The other problem with garden apartments is they don't signal a clear identity

>Ranch house?
Suburban domesticity

>Glass high rise?
Cosmopolitan and successful

>Brownstone?
Gentrified bohemian

>Trailer?
Low income lowlife

But a garden apartment is just... a blank slate. It doesn't say "this person is quirky" or "this family is upper-middle class." Garden apartments IRL can mean anything from section 8 to divorced accountant dad... and they all look pretty much the same.

TV and film are a visual medium, and there's no visual shorthand communicated with a garden apartment, other than maybe stroad-adjacent malaise.