They aren't really bad ideas, tons of people will pay to see them.
It's the way the world is turning to interact between the medias (VG and movies)
Next there will be an Assassin's Creed tv show.

I think there are too many movies being made into games. Though once in a while, a movie-game is actually good. Have there EVER been any good game-movies?

Why not just stop making so many damn movies?
There. Problem solved. :)

whats next?
tetris the movie

it's not that we have too many games turned into movies but there are too many games turned into Shitty movies.....if they were all good i would say keep them coming, but video game adaptions are rarely good

If they can do this, they can do ANYTHING...

Asteroids Movie Exclusive
Producer reveals plot details and news of the Wheelman movie.
by Chris Tilly, IGN UK

UK, July 23, 2009 - When Universal announced plans to turn the classic arcade game Asteroids into a movie, there was much head-scratching within the geek community as to what shape a film based on the property's rather slim premise would take.

Intrigued by the prospect, IGN exclusively quizzed producer Lornezo di Bonaventura on the subject while he was visiting London to publicize G.I. Joe, and he was extremely forthcoming on the subject.

"It's funny because people say there's nothing in the game, but that's not entirely right" he explained. "I was attracted to Asteroids, plain and simple, because I think what it tells you is that there's going to be this big thing in space."

"We've crafted a really strong, deep mythology for the thing. Without divulging too much about it, it's two lead characters - two brothers - who have to go through a seminal experience to figure out their relationship, against this huge backdrop."

But what of the title's point-and-shoot gameplay? "Well you'd better have some guys in spaceships blowing stuff up" he continued "or else you haven't honoured the fun of Asteroids."

While on the subject of game-to-film adaptation, we also asked the uber-producer about his long-gestating adaptation of Wheelman, to which he responded: "A draft has been handed into Paramount, but they just had a change of management, so everybody is catching up to some of the scripts. We're sort of in that holding period right now."

@Kantor -
There's Max Payne and Hitman, those were decent but good video game -> movie transitions are far in few.

I don't even bother watching game movies anymore. Just like I don't buy games based on movies. The transition from linear to interactive media and visa versa generally leads to a very horrible piece of entertainment.

I really disliked Max Payne, except for a few of the action sequences. Haven't seen Hitman. Maybe MGS will be good.