Why do writers insult us?

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2004)

Don't writers even TRY developing a script without HUGE plot holes any more?
OK, you have a number of people waiting out the storm in the NY Public Library and the ONLY thing they can find to burn are BOOKS???? How about ANY of the wooden tables and chairs? Why didn't that cross any one's mind?
Oh I know - that was the only way the writer could make his point about "saving the Guttenberg Bible" for humanity. Give me a break. I am so tired of writers being too lazy to figure out how to get from Point A to Point C without insulting the intelligence of everyone watching the movie. Could the writer not think of any other way to work that statement into the movie? And I won't even touch the ridiculousness of someone walking from Philadelphia to NYC. After all, it was supposed to be an entertaining movie!