# Movie buildings of the future **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 16, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020 "2025-10-16T15:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/1 "2025-10-16T15:33:09Z")
Just a slight venture into the future, and swinging doors have practically disappeared. It’s all sliding doors. When is this going to happen irl? I’m tired of using a doorknob like some kind of animal. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/2 "2025-10-16T15:37:47Z")
Animals are way ahead of us. They live in barns and barn doors slide. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/3 "2025-10-16T16:28:50Z")
I want doors that respond to a vocalized sibilant, like in _Airplane 2_. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/4 "2025-10-16T16:35:52Z")
Do we really even need doors? People do all sorts of fucked up things behind them when they are closed. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/5 "2025-10-16T16:47:21Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Just a slight venture into the future, and swinging doors have practically disappeared. It’s all sliding doors. When is this going to happen irl? [Be careful what you wish for.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3ZQmSqCc4&t=18s) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/6 "2025-10-16T17:21:46Z")
I want doors that iris open. But on House Hunters, sliding internal barn doors are all the rage, Mooooo. Or bedrooms with no doors at all, open to the whole house. “That thing you knew as ‘privacy’ was a short-lived fad.” ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/7 "2025-10-16T17:37:02Z")
“Your work’s open-plan office now follows you home.” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/8 "2025-10-16T20:44:14Z")
In the future, all buildings will be in a sort of Brutalist style architecture. Generally, they will also be enormous. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/9 "2025-10-16T20:51:17Z")
I do not want my cat to be able to keep opening the door, over and over again, to see if it it still raining outside. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/10 "2025-10-16T21:29:21Z")
If the Brutalist is softened with some nice landscaping, I’m all for it. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/11 "2025-10-16T21:38:55Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I want doors that iris open. “The door dilated”. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/12 "2025-10-16T22:36:24Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I want doors that iris open. I know I’ve always wanted doors that look like an anus. > [@msmith537](#): > > In the future, all buildings will be in a sort of Brutalist style architecture. > > Generally, they will also be enormous. I know that I’ve always wanted to live in a [Terry Gilliam film](https://youtu.be/LFlFIG22Y9E?si=zaCPCFpmVDhDb0Sx). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/13 "2025-10-17T00:41:09Z")
Not even in the future – in _Transparent,_ set in a hospital, all the doors to patient rooms slide. I can see serious problems with that in a hospital. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/14 "2025-10-17T00:44:54Z")
At the clinic where I have my doctor appointments the doors from the hallways to the patient rooms all slide. I don’t see how this can be a problem in a hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/15 "2025-10-17T02:28:28Z")
At a lot of the buildings I enter, the doors automatically slide open. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/16 "2025-10-17T10:39:44Z")
I’d like office buildings to still have revolving doors, but with a horizontal axis of rotation, to emphasise that things are different in the future. They would work well with Futurama-style people tubes. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/17 "2025-10-17T13:24:54Z")
I thought most of us were going to be living in towers reaching into the sky, Jetsons-style, after WWIII reduces the ground below to stone age rubble in which a few remaining families wearing nothing but animal skins struggle to survive below; using animals as slave labor to try to simulate the modern conveniences they used to enjoy. I’m glad I likely won’t make it to 2062, since I’ll be too old and feeble to survive at stone age ground level, and living in the sky would be hell on my acrophobia. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buildings-of-the-future/1024020/18 "2025-10-17T14:11:08Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I’m glad I likely won’t make it to 2062, The Future isn’t as far away as it used to be in 1962. > [@solost](#): > > stone age rubble HA!