The Twilight Saga: Eclipse goofs

Victoria 's long-term objective is to assemble a newborn army (through Riley, rather than personally) to destroy the Cullens and Bella. So why, near the start of the film, does she inexplicably return to the woods around Forks where she could quite plausibly be slain by vampires or werewolves? That motive is never clarified, appears to serve no purpose, and either faction could easily have killed her well before her plan came to fruition.

(at around 1 hr 24 mins) When Riley slowly rises from the water and his band of newborns draws close to the town of Forks, tiny beads of water are expelled from his nostrils as he exhales. Vampires do not breathe.

(at roughly the two-minute mark) Early in the film, while Bella is reciting Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice," she says "But if I had to perish twice," which makes little sense, as the poem concerns the end of the world. The correct line is "But if it had to perish twice."

Jasper would have been 161 in 2005 and would therefore be older than several of the other Cullens, yet he is somehow depicted as a newborn who cannot control himself. Jasper Hale was born in 1842. He was turned into a vampire in 1861 at the age of 19.

He killed many people and would have more practise in controlling his urges than most of the other Cullens.

(at about 1 hour 40 minutes) During Edward's fight with Victoria and Riley, Bella slices her arm with a stone. When the blood trickles down, it is evident the cut is underneath her sleeve, yet Edward wraps her arm close to the wrist — nowhere near the spot where the blood originated.

In an early scene Edward has hair on his chest that is visible at the neckline of his shirt. However, when he proposes to Bella his chest appears hairless.

(at approximately 1 hour 26 minutes) In the tent scene, Bella's knitted hat shifts position repeatedly.

In the opening meadow scene, Bella is shown wearing her ring on her finger in the initial shot, but it is absent for the remainder of the scene.

(at around 1 hr 45 mins) When Bree is initially propped up and watching Felix as he approaches, her hair is untucked from behind her ears. However, when the camera cuts back to her in the next shot, she is lying on the ground with her hair tucked behind her right ear.

(at approximately 1 hour and 26 minutes) During the tent sequence, Edward's fringe on his forehead appears to vary from shot to shot.

(at around 42 minutes) In The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), when Bella lands a punch on Paul after confronting him about Jacob, she does not injure her hand. In contrast, in Eclipse, a punch she delivers to Jacob results in a broken hand.

(at approximately 1 hour 1 minute) While Jasper is recounting his past to Bella, he says he served in the Texas Cavalry and was en route to Galveston before he was turned. The scene cuts to that sequence, showing Jasper on horseback with mountains behind him, and then beside the sea. There are, however, no mountains within several hundred miles of Galveston, Texas.

(at about the eight-minute mark) In the school's canteen the Union Flag is displayed the wrong way round. The broader white diagonal should always be positioned clockwise of the narrower white diagonal.

(at around 1h 30 mins) In the tent scene Jacob has to come inside to keep Bella warm because it is so cold. The following morning she's outside wearing jeans and a button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up — no coat, hat or gloves. However, snow during daylight hours is quite different from the overnight temperatures experienced in a howling blizzard, and it's entirely possible that Bella feels comfortable without a jacket.

(at around 20 minutes) When Jacob turns up at Bella's school his hair appears wet and lies flat. Yet by the time he and Bella reach Sam's house his hair is completely dry. Given it's roughly a fifteen to twenty-minute motorbike ride from Forks to Sam's place on the reservation and Jacob doesn't wear a helmet, it's entirely plausible his hair dried in the wind on the way. Moreover, his body temperature (and therefore his head) runs very high, which would have accelerated the drying, especially as his hair is cut very short.

If Edward spent most of his final year at school in Italy, how did he manage to finish on time? The novel reveals that he was astute enough to accrue extra credits for the work he missed and that he employed his powers of persuasion to make it happen.

(around the 20-minute mark) When Jacob arrives at the school, the number plate on his motorbike is from California, although the film is set in Washington. Bella, however, says she rescued the motorbikes from the rubbish. As she bought them second-hand, there is no way of knowing where the previous owners originally purchased them. It's highly unlikely that two teenagers would have bothered to properly re-register them and obtain new number plates and registration tags.

(at approximately 4 minutes) It has been suggested that "in the opening meadow scene, when Bella pushes Edward to the ground, his hand is on her neck, but when the camera switches to the side angle, his hand is on her waist." However, the hand on Bella's neck is actually her own — this is evident in the following shot when Bella moves her left hand away from her neck.

In several scenes (for example, at the lunch table when the leavers' party is first being discussed), a strip of "sticky tape" or other "adhesive" can be seen beneath the Cullen Crest on Alice's necklace, clearly used to keep it in place while she moves.