It’s official. Hoa hoa hoa season is here, baby! And at Cineworld we are counting down the days until the Twilight Saga returns to the big screen in October. Happening from the 10th until the 27th October, you can book to watch all five movies and spend the start of forever in this supernatural romantic epic (yep, we said what we said and we stand by it).
In preparation for our return to the rainy Washington town of Forks, allow us to take you on a trip down memory lane and talk about those most viral, meme-worthy moments in the Twilight films. We’ve given you the best Twilight scenes. Now it’s all about those silly, iconic, cringe-worthy moments that have stood the test of time, which, no matter how ridiculous or overly dramatic, we stan to this day.
The phantom ketchup incident when Bella and Charlie eat in the diner
We’ve all been there, struggling to get any tomato sauce onto our plate – particularly when it’s in a glass bottle. Bella brought all our frustrations to life in the first Twilight movie when she struggles to squeeze any ketchup out.
Seemingly not wanting to break character or stray from the script, she puts the bottle down as if she was satisfied with the non-existent amount of dipping sauce for her fries. It quickly became a moment fans latched to online, dubbing the condiment “phantom ketchup”. Maybe her dormant vampire abilities also consist of seeing things no one else can, as well as being a shield…?
Edward looking like he’s about to hurl when Bella walks into Biology
Imagine the boy you fancy taking one look at you and looking like he’s about to throw up. That’s essentially Bella’s first interaction with Edward after seeing the Cullen family from afar in the cafeteria.
Bella walks into their Biology class, the fan catching her hair and, unbeknownst to her, carrying her delicious scent to Edward, who has to clamp a hand over his mouth and nose to resist sinking his teeth into her throat. Could’ve fooled us. From his reaction, it looks like Bella smells like rotten eggs.
“This is the skin of a killer, Bella.”
One of the pivotal moments in Twilight is when Bella finally confronts Edward about what he is. The scene in the forest features a number of truly iconic lines, but the internet went feral at the first reveal of Stephanie Meyer’s personal stamp on the characteristics of vampires – namely that their skin sparkles in the sunlight.
No bursting into flames, here. Edward is in fact a fearsome, shiny vampire. Of course, Bella isn’t taking the fact he’s a blood-sucking vampire nearly seriously enough, so he has to caveat the reveal by insisting, “This is the skin of a killer, Bella.” Sure, Jan.
The man in the restaurant thinking about his cat
After Edward rescues Bella from a gang of men in Port Angeles, he insists she eat to help with the shock. This is when Edward shares his special vampire ability that he can read minds – except for Bella’s. He then glances around the room, listing off what each person around them is thinking, namely about money and sex.
One is not like the other, though, lingering on a man who seems to be zoning out from the person across the room. Edward says simply, “Cat” and the man in question lets out a contended sigh with a small smile on his face. We’ve never related to something more.
“Hold on tight, Spider-Monkey!”
We positively swooned in the moment. The sentimental nicknames! The romance of it all! In hindsight, it’s kind of hilarious the way Edward seems to glide from tree to tree with Bella on his back as they fly through the forest outside the Cullen’s gigantic house. It’s so silly, but it’s also so iconic and we love it.
“Where the hell have you been, Loca?”
Some airtime has to be given to Jacob. While some of the Cineworld team are staunchly Team Edward, Jacob has some zinger one-liners throughout the franchise, and it all begins in New Moon.
After hibernating following her break-up from Edward, Bella rocks up at the Black household to deliver two motorbikes she rescued from the junk yard in the hope Jacob will fix them up. Jacob runs out of his house, long hair still flowing at this point, and asks, “Where the hell have you been, Loca?”, scooping Bella into a bear – or should we say ‘wolf’? – hug.
“Doesn’t he own a shirt?”
In Eclipse, the tension in the love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob definitely intensifies and there are plenty of sassy remarks from both boys vying for Bella’s heart. And Jacob’s abs certainly draw a lot of attention after his New Moon glow-up.
Meeting Jacob in the middle of nowhere, as Bella and Edward approach from his Volvo, Edward mutters, “Doesn’t he own a shirt?” While not disclosed, it’s not exactly a stretch to say Edward is probably a little intimidated by how muscular Jacob is with Edward’s own frame on the leaner side.
Another hilarious slight comes later in the movie when the three find themselves cosying up in a tent on a snowy mountain. Trying to keep Bella warm, Jacob scathingly says, “Well, I am hotter than you” and the double meaning is palpable.
Bella’s face after she punches Jacob
Jacob finally shoots his shot and goes in for the kiss with Bella during Eclipse while they’re hiding out from a vengeful Victoria. While Bella seems to kiss back for a moment, she soon metaphorically and physically opens her eyes and proceeds to throw a punch at Jacob’s jaw.
Of course, he’s a buff werewolf now, and Bella injures herself more than she does his, her slightly cross-eyed grimace becoming one a widely GIF-ified moment in the whole saga.
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“You nick-named my daughter after the Lochness Monster!!!”
In Breaking Dawn: Part 2, Bella finally awakens after her transition into a vampire. Really, they could’ve given the girl some more time before she had to learn her adult male best friend – who’s also a werewolf – has imprinted on her newborn daughter.
When Jacob tries to placate his best friend, he also reveals his nickname for her daughter, Nessa, to which Bella’s anger boils over as she roars, “You nick-named my daughter after the Lochness Monster!!!”
To be fair, it is widely argued Renesmee – the amalgamation of Bella and Edward’s mother’s names – is all kinds of stupid. In the same vein, it’s also entirely perfect for this beautifully cringe-worthy series.
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How much Bella sighs/scoffs/exhales throughout the series
As if the teenage angst wasn’t absolutely rife throughout the series of five films, Kristen Stewart really brought another realm of angst to this movie with Bella’s series of sighs/scoffs/exhales. She was very breathy in these movies and, while we’ll have to refer to the original text to confirm whether or not this was as prevalent in the books, it doesn’t feel like Bella could ever have been played any other way.
It was A Choice, and to be honest Kristen Stewart has gone on to have a very successful and impressive career as an actress, so we certainly can’t fault her. And we won’t hear criticism for anyone else either!!
Aro’s weird laugh when he hears Renesmee’s heartbeat
The final film leads up to a final battle with the Volturi as they suspect there is an immortal child in the Cullens’ midst. Of course, this isn’t the case. Renesmee was not a human child turned into a vampire – that has a penchant for going on murderous rampages – but a child conceived by Bella and Edward who appears to be aging rapidly.
All those details aside, Michael Sheen portrays the leader of the Volturi, Aro, who lets out the most delighted, child-like laugh when he first hears that Renesmee in fact has a heartbeat. A collector of gifted vampires, he is in awe of discovering both Bella’s shield gift, one has not seen before in his centuries on earth, and the creation of Renesmee. The laugh is sort of adorable but also so bizarre.
Basically every single moment Charlie Swan is on screen in the Twilight Saga
As a fanbase we can all collectively agree that Charlie Swan is actually the best character in Twilight. Hindsight is a fine thing, and as Twilight’s core audience has got older, it’s beautiful to see the shift as we move on from young fans thirsting over Edward and Jacob, to actually being a little bit in love with Charlie Swan. And it’s not just because of his very snazzy handlebar mustache, but also because he has so many absolute corker one-liners.
Charlie Swan is a Girl Dad and it shows when he asks Bella, “Still got that pepper spray?” when she goes on a date with Edward. At the end of the film, when the two are preparing to go to prom, he doubles down with, “I put a new can of pepper spray in your bag.” We love a protective king.
Before Jacob reveals his true identity to Charlie, he has to strip off. But Charlie won’t be dazzled by his abs, following Edward’s sentiment when he says, “Jacob, put your clothes on.”
And, of course, then there’s the wedding speech. “Edward will be a good husband. I know this, because I’m a cop. I know things, like how to hunt somebody until the end of the earth. And I know how to use a gun.”
In Breaking Dawn: Part 2, while Charlie never seems to fully find out what the Cullens, and subsequently Bella, are, when he goes to meet his granddaughter for the first time, he asks the room “Do you turn into an animal too?"
Wow, the Twilight Saga really is the gift that keeps on giving. We can't wait to laugh and cringe and scream "Iconic!" when we see them return to play out on the big screen at Cineworld this October.
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