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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Adam Boult

Have you ever walked out of a film?

Dean Martin, L Scott and Jerry Lewis
Don't make me watch … has anything made you walk out of a film? Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd

Have you ever been to see a film that was so bad you left before the end?

Anyone who enjoys going to the cinema is likely to have sat through a few stinkers in their time – but has there been anything that prompted you to walk out? If so, how could you be sure the film wouldn't radically improve in the final reel?

If it was that bad, what made you go to see it in the first place?

If you've never left a cinema before the end of film, and always stay diligently to the end, what would it take to make you walk out? Boredom? Disgust? Fright? What's the closest you've come to quitting a film part-way through? Let us know in the thread below.

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