I’m a big fan of any movie that is based on a true story. It seems the crime movies like Goodfellas, Casino, and the ones on Al Capone are a bit more intense than some of your other true story movies. I will always sit down to a movie based on John Dillenger and I love the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde movie that rarely comes on television. I may just have to buy Bonnie and Clyde at Buy.com and add it to my movie collection.

All of these crime movies are real life stories and people really did lose their life to these criminals that we view as icons or heroes now. I guess we can blame Hollywood for this, because they are the ones that have us rooting for these bad guys on screen. I don’t know of anyone that is rooting for the police (good guys) to catch these criminals on the run.

I do think one fascination we have with them is money. Most of these legendary bandits got their hands on money and lots of it! They did very little work to earn it. In most cases these men and women were very brave, but never did the physical labor it would take to earn this much money back then. Even today money is hard to come by and I think we all think about robbing a bank or a casino to get our hands on some fast cash. I know one good job at a bank would help me out with my bills. It would be nice to go shopping and buy anything you wanted, instead of having to find a sale to shop for. The power that comes from money is what gave these bank robbers and thieves the ability to form partnerships, gangs, and even corrupt a city if you think about Al Capone’s power. This power spills on to us and we root for them to get away with it and not get caught. After all, we would want a few cheerleaders and helpers if we were running from the law and trying to hide a huge stash of cash.

Now I like the non crime movies that are based on true stories too. I am a true story junkie when it comes to movies. I really like them all and they are very few bad movies out there that are based on true stories. It just seems like the ones that involve a crime are the most interesting and obviously I’m not alone; since Hollywood mainly goes this route on their true story movies.

Currently there is some high profile names involved in crimes making the news headlines today. I can’t wait to see some of these future movies and see how they come out on the big screen. One of the most recent true story movies was the one based on Natalie Holloway and her trip to Aruba. That is a pretty good movie, but this is one movie where you are rooting for the good guys (police) to catch the bad guys. I think we are all rooting and praying that people like Natalie Holloway and Jon Bonet Ramsey get the justice they deserve. We could use more true story movies like the Elizabeth Smart case, that did have a happy ending.