I totally respect where she's coming from, but I also don't think she understands the full picture. "Wonder Woman," as underwhelmed as I was by it, is an incredibly important picture in that it actually fully captured the zeitgeist. Literally, everybody in the industry was talking about it. Why? It's a superhero movie, and there hasn't been a female-driven superhero movie that has succeeded this much in capturing the cinematic conversation until now.
It's made $330M domestically. That is insane. It will most likely surpass "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2" as the second highest grossing movie of the year – "Beauty and the Beast" is far and away unreachable, at the very least, until "The Last Jedi" is released. The films she mentions ("Mean Girls," "Clueless") didn't even make $100M.
A movie like "Wonder Woman" will have teenage girls, hell even younger tweens, look up to a strong and powerful female hero. That is gigantic. All of the juggernaut superhero movies thus far have barely scraped female heroism. Thank God for Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot: because of them it is no longer a dream, it is a reality. Younger girls worldwide can look in the mirror and pretend they are Wonder Woman, Princess of the Amazon, Goddess of truth.
“Before ‘Wonder Woman’ … ‘Wonder Woman?’ Before ‘Wonder Woman’ there have been many movies with female leads, so I get a little confused,” Silverstone said. “We have made strides, of course. I think about, what about all those wonderful comedians who are females who have had massive hits? There’s ‘Bridesmaids.'”
“I don’t know. I just feel like, over the years, there was ‘Mean Girls,’ there was ‘Clueless,’ over time we have had so many movies that have been female-driven.”
[The Wrap]