Worst Movie Novelizations (PHOTOS)

We all feel like we've wasted two hours of our lives that we'll never get back when we sit through horrible films. Unfortunately, some of these horrible films were then made into novels that undoubtedly waste much more time.

The following novelizations are some of the worst, be in children's literature or adult.

Did we miss any that you loved to hate? Let us know in the comments!

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Back to the Future II

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Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future. However, while there, Biff Tannen steals the Dolorean to travel back to 1985, thus changing the past and creating a dystopia. McFly and Doc Brown have to travel back in time again to repair the timeline. Why'd they make this into a book? We don't know.

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Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future. However, while there, Biff Tannen steals the Dolorean to travel back to 1985, thus changing the past and creating a dystopia. McFly and Doc Brown have to travel back in time again to repair the timeline.

Why'd they make this into a book? We don't know.

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[pinkpandaparade]

04:41 PM on 03/16/2011

Space Jam? Srsly?

[Leslie Boggs]

07:20 PM on 03/15/2011

"http://www.theoutsidejoke.com/2011/03/5-movie-ideas-based-on-office-supplies

[Leslie Boggs]

07:19 PM on 03/15/2011

Studio suck sometimes! Here's another list of bad movie ideas.

[Mark Morlock]

10:13 PM on 03/09/2011

They wrote a book about a movie like "Space Jam"? I'm assuming it's less than a hundred pages long and is composed of rhyming stanzas...

[badgerwoman]

04:15 PM on 03/07/2011

My then grade school-aged youngest son had that Space Jam book. He loved loved loved all things Michael Jordan in those days. As a mom, I was Ok with buying him books any time.

[pinkpandaparade]

04:42 PM on 03/16/2011

Okay yeah I can see that. Good point.

[mburgh]

11:47 AM on 03/07/2011

Dude, it's called marketing.

[timothyjlambert]

11:28 PM on 03/06/2011

To whomever wrote the original post, if you're going to call a book a waste of time and criticize it, at least have the decency to edit your work. The punctuation and spelling errors in the post and slide descriptions are a waste of your former English teacher's time.

[LMPE]

05:50 PM on 03/06/2011

Actually, "Back to the Future II" was my favorite movie in the series. The whole thing about Biff creating an alternate version of history was a fascinating concept. But I agree that it didn't need a novelization.

[Widespread Panic]

11:12 PM on 03/05/2011

I've never understood the movie-to-book thing. I guess the idea is to give more details that the movie wasn't able to cover, but in the case of these movies an adaptation was not needed.

[Angelus2007]

01:10 PM on 03/06/2011

I agree, with the exception of kids movies. I could see there being a Toy Story book for little kids with pictures and whatnot, but not novels. I also can understand continuing stories, like all the Star Wars books and things like that.

[MJinCanada]

03:14 PM on 03/07/2011

Yes, additional stories about endearing or enduring characters is fine. There are some excellent Star Trek novels, etc.

But why a book that just reiterates what was in the movie -- and badly? Waste of trees, really.

[mburgh]

11:51 AM on 03/07/2011

It's a marketing tool. Been around for a long time. 1940's at least.

[triplettam]

01:28 PM on 03/05/2011

I know this article is about books made from terrible movies, but I've only read one movie novelization ever: "E.T." Kotzwinkle did it and it was great. Of course, I think anything Kotzwinkle does is good. One of my favorites voices.

[doodlebug2]

08:57 AM on 03/05/2011

4 hourseman of the Apocalypse is a great book
The movie is terrible and totally unlike the book.
Some one should remake it though as the story is good even today.

[BlackJAC]

10:11 PM on 03/04/2011

Wild Wild West was steampunk, was set after the Civil War, and the 1960s TV show it was based on grew out of an initial attempt to film Casino Royale long before either David Niven or Daniel Craig had come along.  And the reason why they did a novelization of Men in Black 2 is because they'd done one of the first Men In Black along with a couple of tie-in sequels involving J and L.

[Perry Clease]

09:46 PM on 03/04/2011

I enjoyed Mars Attacks! The others on this list, no.

[BlackJAC]

07:37 PM on 03/05/2011

Mars Attacks! was horrible.

[Perry Clease]

11:38 PM on 03/05/2011

Well that was the whole point about the movie, they new it when they storyboarded it.

[A Radical Moderate]

09:44 AM on 03/07/2011

There is such a thing as so bad its good. See Snakes on a Plane

[LMPE]

05:48 PM on 03/06/2011

I liked it too

[namewithheld]

06:49 PM on 03/04/2011

Why were these movies made into books made into an article on Huph Paost Ayyyhole L?

[2crudedudes]

05:24 PM on 03/04/2011

The novelizations of Kazaam and Crossroads are particularly funny as neither Britney nor Shaq seem like the book-reading type.