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Apparently. I mean, if you think about it, it doesn't even offer anything to the industry. Like, personally, I think for all the flak Resident Evil gets, the franchise itself is responsible for bringing back the zombie culture. Because after the zombie movies became all washed up in the 80's, the early 90's experienced a serious zombie drought. Let's face it, people stopped giving a crap.
And I'm sure that Resident Evil's (movie's) monetary success gave second hope to directors like Zack Snyder, and hell, especially Edgar Wright. I mean, look at Shaun of the Dead... If the zombie culture hadn't made a comeback, then Shaun wouldn't have been relevant. And honestly, I believe that Resident Evil as a franchise is responsible for bringing the zombie culture back into relevance.

If you look at a movie like Mortal Kombat. Well that was based on a fighting game, and back then, fighting games had such scattered plots. It's like, back stories of the characters, and a brief synopsis of the plot. That's it. So to have a movie, actually organize those ideas into a plotline with actual speaking characters was still a useful thing, at least for the fans of the game.

But even if we didn't have the Tomb Raider movie. Even if we didn't have the new Indiana Jones, suck as it did. We have National Treasure, The Mummy, and various other adventure movies dealing with treasures and history and stuff, so it's not like an Uncharted movie would rekindle any kind of a forgotten movie genre, or anything of the sort. So the only thing that an Uncharted movie could hope for is to fulfil a part of Game's plot, like I said, for example, as a prequel.
Yet, if they're only gonna copy the first game--especially with the kind of cinematic quality that's brought on by the game--the movie is completely redundant.

I guess Silent Hill wasn't really all that needed either, but still, it's loosely based on the original Silent Hill, which didn't really beam with amazing graphics. So to at least bring those visuals to life was exciting to see.

But with Uncharted, not only are the characters and the storyline really well fleshed out. Not only is the gameplay and storyline action packed and cinematic. Not only is the genre always relevant and relatively popular. But the visuals are amazing. So there's nothing an Uncharted movie could do that the game didn't. Only a new plot, and if they're not gonna go for it. Well, like I said, the movie will be completely redundant.

But, it's not even about that. Not only will the movie not accomplish anything new. But even if the movie is set out to copy the game, it's just not capable of doing it any better. If the movie does everything that the game does, only better, then maybe it would be redeemable, if pointless.
But there's no way a 1.5 hour movie will do everything the game did, and the few things that it can take right from the game, it simply won't be able to make them better.

Unfortunately, half the writers and directors don't understand the medium they're working from, it seems.
Combine that with fans who don't know what they want, and you got a forumla that can't win.

The only thing they jump at are movies made by the game companies themselves. The sad thing is, I guarantee that if it was some random third party writer and director unaffiliated with Square, who made Advent Children, the fans would've hated it.

Well, yeah. But Spirits within was very different from Advent Children.
Although who knows, for all we know, if Square were the ones who actually made Spirits Within themselves, maybe the fans would've been like, "Awesome!"