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People Are Re-Watching The ‘Twilight Saga’ And Realizing How Crazy It Was, Here’re 40 Hilarious Memes About It
This weekend, the entire Twilight Saga hit Netflix, leaving fans and the fresh aficionados of this vampire-themed—can I call it ‘classic’?—romance glued to their screens. The 2010s hit stirred the nostalgia for our careless teenage years and sparked the long-forgotten rush of seeing Bella and Edward navigating through their complex love story, weird adventures, and trying to stay alive.
Have we finally learnt to appreciate this weird fantasy saga? It seems like it. So, as a tribute to that, fans are now sharing some of the most hilariously spot-on tweets that capture all the insanity that Twilight really was.
And it all poses the question: how on earth didn't we see just how bonkers this golden nugget of cinematography was at the time?
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Back in 2018, the Twilight Saga celebrated its 10th anniversary with a very typical division that once again separated fans from its skeptics. People who rolled their eyes 10 years ago are rolling them again. But it takes one glimpse at the Netflix top 10 chart, and you realize what a controversial (master)piece the vampire saga really is.
After its initial release on Friday, the five Twilight films immediately made their way to Netflix’s top 10 most-watched list. As it currently stands, Twilight (2008) is in third, New Moon (2009) is in sixth, Eclipse (2010) is seventh, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (2011) is eighth, and Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (2012) is 10th.
But contrary to what we see today, the beginning wasn’t an easy one for this fantasy saga. When Twilight first premiered, no one could know if Stephenie Meyer’s hugely successful teen novels would transfer to the screen. After all, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were almost unknown to a wide audience. Plus, director Catherine Hardwicke had a sprint of 44 days to shoot with a tight $37M budget. Have in mind the usual rate at the time was more like $200M for similar CGI-fantasy-action movies.
On Twilight’s opening weekend in the United States, it turned out that the emo crush was bordering on mass hysteria. The film made a jaw-dropping $69M by Sunday on Twilight’s opening weekend in the US. Mass hysteria started and critics couldn’t believe the success of the story that was aimed primarily at girls.
Melissa Silverstein of Women and Hollywood commented on this phenomenon to The Guardian: “The part that shocked Hollywood was that the film’s stunning success was fuelled by ‘girl power.’ The general consensus in Hollywood is that films and books made for men and boys are seen as ‘universal,’ and things that are made for women and girls are somehow seen as ‘other.’ Women are seen as a ‘niche’ audience. This ‘nichification’ of women has been one of the most enduring problems facing the much-maligned chick flick.”
We've come full circle bois
Normal people: I have actual personality traits Bella: My personality is loving Edward and being clumsy
If she didn't become a vampire or had a vampire by her side she would have slipped over spaghetti and died in school cafeteria or fell off a cliff accidentally because she was so lost in whatever made her so uncomfortable or something like that.
The shoe under the person in the front made me think he had a third leg for a solid 30 seconds.
i always wondered about period.. at any given day a girl must have been on her periods in that school.. how did he cope with that? and how did edward and jasper cope with bellas period, if her blood smells so much better than everyones else?! and do alice and the other two vamp-women (gosh forgot thier names) still have their periods? i guess not, so THAT would be the sole reason to become a vampire for me
Am i the only one who found that annoying? I just hated Rose for it.
Everybody read it in Kelly's voice. Twilight love story(ies) more toxic than Kelly and Ryan's.
Jacob Black: Bella, come on! You can spout that crap to your blood sucker, but you don’t fool me! I can see what that thing’s doing to you. It’s a killer, Bella!
i screwed up pops, i screwed up. now we are going to have a half vampire - half spider monkey.
My best friend and I went to the midnight screenings of every one of these movies. We took turns paying and brought our wine tumblers yes we were in our late 30s No I'm am not ashamed it was so much fun
Hey it was a fun time....the movies are damned awful but somehow still enjoyable.
Load More Replies...I never read past the first few pages of the first book, saw the first movie only when MST3K did it. That said, back after the third book came out (or so?), an in-law gushingly asked me what I thought of Twilight. My reply: "Perfect for soccer moms with a stalker fetish." And then 50 Shades came out and I had to realize Twilight wasnt really that bad...
My best friend and I went to the midnight screenings of every one of these movies. We took turns paying and brought our wine tumblers yes we were in our late 30s No I'm am not ashamed it was so much fun
Hey it was a fun time....the movies are damned awful but somehow still enjoyable.
Load More Replies...I never read past the first few pages of the first book, saw the first movie only when MST3K did it. That said, back after the third book came out (or so?), an in-law gushingly asked me what I thought of Twilight. My reply: "Perfect for soccer moms with a stalker fetish." And then 50 Shades came out and I had to realize Twilight wasnt really that bad...