Quiz: Nic Cage or Nickelback?

Nathan O. Stringer
3 min readJun 27, 2017

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Are these lines from Nicolas Cage movies certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes or lyrics from Nickelback singles certified platinum in Australia?

1. “You don’t have a lucky crack pipe?”

2. “Everything I take is prescription — except for the heroin.”

3. “Everybody’s got a drug dealer on speed dial.”

4. “I’m gonna… pop my pills from a pez dispenser.”

5. “I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There’s something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I’m way overdue.”

6. “So I’m out on the couch this afternoon, beer bottles layin’ on the kitchen floor. If we take ’em all back we can buy some more, so I doubt we’ll go without this afternoon. You better hang on if you’re taggin’ along ’cause we’ll be doin this ‘till 6 in the mornin’.”

7. “You turn me on, bar-rum, you turn me on, bar-rum, you’re not too long, you’re not too short, you’re not too round, bar-rum, you’re like a cat, the cat in the hat. Look at those eyes. Honest to God. You’re luminescent, baby.”

8. “I’ve been wrong, I’ve been down, been to the bottom of every bottle. These five words in my head scream: ‘are we having fun yet?’”

9. “If you dress like Halloween, ghouls will try to get in your pants.”

10. “If I were to send you flowers where would I… no, let me rephrase that. If I were to let you suck my tongue, would you be grateful?”

11. “Tonight, out on the street, out in the moonlight, and dammit this feels too right. It’s just like deja vu, me standing here with you.”

12. “The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!”

13. “Well I’d hope that since we’re here anyway that we could end up saying things we’ve always needed to say, so we could end up staying. Now the story’s played out like this, just like a paperback novel. Let’s rewrite an ending that fits instead of a Hollywood horror.”

14. “Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn’t be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I’m a walking cliché.”

Nicolas Cage: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14

Nickelback: 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13

Sources
1, 2 — Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call
3, 4 — “Rockstar”
5 — Adaptation.
6 — “This Afternoon”
7 — Leaving Las Vegas
8 — “How You Remind Me”
9, 10 — Face/Off
11 — “Gotta Be Somebody”
12 — Moonstruck
13 — “Someday”
14 — Adaptation.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/nicolas_cage/
http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations.htm

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Nathan O. Stringer
Nathan O. Stringer

Written by Nathan O. Stringer

I like writing history, poetry and nonsense. Check out my book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HS5K34Y/

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