'Lo folks! Wow, I've been gone for a while, good to be back! (For a moment at least.)

Anyhoo; movie cliches I hate:

Grenukes.

Addendum to Grenukes: a Good Guy standing (running, ducking, whatever) five feet from an exploding Grenuke and not taking any damage whatsoever.

Addendum to the addendum of Grenukes: Grenukes with highly variable fuze times - occasionally in excess of twenty seconds.

Addendum to the addendum to the addendum of Grenukes: Voice activated Grenukes. as in - Grenuke rolls to the Bad guy's feet, and sits there, happily dormant until Bad guy looks down, sees it and says something to the effect of "Oh, shi..." BOOM!!!!!

Question regarding cliches - why is it a Bad Guy is never captured and arrested by a uniformed officer? It's always up to the steely eyed/moody/angry/withdrawn/wisecracking plainclothed Detective, Sergeant, etc. while the uniformed cops sit in their cars going 'duh'. Wouldn't it be nice for a uniformed cop - not a renegade, or a genius, or a CIA plant or sommat; just a hard-working, ordinary joe police officer to be the hero, just once?

This one I blame entirely on the worst crime ever inflicted on Hollywood: Bruce Willis (though it could've been Steven Segal. Whatever; they're both pretty miserable). I don't know what you call it, but it's that horrible holding-the-handgun-sideways-with-your-palm-down everybody seems to like doing nowadays. I admit; it's a pretty good explanation of why every Hollywood gun battle goes at least a thousand rounds without anyone hitting anything, but it's the dumbest looking thing I've ever seen.

Cheers!