I totally loved It's Complicated. I was giggling and guffawing at Streep's uptight, consistently safe mother character letting go, Steve Martin's mr nice guy that's high on pot, John Krasinki's hilarious bf who catches his in-laws having an affair & half dying from the confusing suspense, and most of all one of my fav comediens Alec Baldwin's charming, funny and oh-so-naughty father Jake.

There's just something so wonderful and special to me about autumn romances. Maybe it's because like Luke says I Am an old man at heart. Or it's the fact that at that age everything more adult and mature and I'm totally turned on by that. Or maybe it's cos unlike the mass majority of people in their twenties (yes i qualify for 3 more days!) who obsess over whether I'm gonna meet the right person and whether this person I have met will love me and turn me on and surprise me and work things out with me and stand by me and have great kids and family life with me, I definitely constantly wonder whether this person can keep the spark going at an old age. Cos in a relationship romance is utmost importance to me (so is sex but that's a corrollary of the first I think) and I have this unending nagging fear that kids, the mortgage, the job, familiarity, time, health and God know what else will conspire to render my marriage the way I've seen many marriages go - stale. And that petrifies me because it's so far ahead you can hardly take steps against it. In settling down you can date and find out things and you'll know if the person does things you like, can compromise on the things you don't like and turns you on the way you like but twenty, thirty years later who knows?

And the last thing I want is to end up like my mum.. I mean I think she's pretty contented with life and I like to think I provide her the support and love that she needs but I know that having a partner would be awesome, especially for the times I go away or just don't feel like talking about things she is worried about that people that age irrationally or rationally get to worry about. And more than that companionship, I crave having that spark carry on in old age. That sexual naughtiness and intellectual stimulation, even after all the children, career et al. In fact, I think and sincerely hope it elevates it to another level of intimacy.

There's a scene in the movie where Baldwin & Streep just got it on and they're spent in bed and she's coy when they have to get up and Baldwin looks at her and she at him... lovingly, wanting, terrified, excited, crazy, happy, contented, a gamut of emotions in that one look, but most of all happiness. And the night in New York they had a fabulous impromptu dinner by the bar with the wine they could afford and the time they could spare, dancing, drinking, laughing. I'm totally seduced by that. It's oh-so-easy when you have shia labeouf & megan fox get hot in transformers when they's 20, but so much more awesome to get hot like streep and baldwin at 60. To me that's the old age happy meal I want. The scene where Streep admits to Baldwin that she was wrong too in the divorce cos she contributed to him having an affair was telling. It takes two to tango and continue that flame burning despite the obligations of family life. The wife must still make the husband feel like a man, not just a father or God forbid simply bill payer. I'm definitely willing to do crazy things even then and make the effort to romance, I certainly hope my partner will as well.

So 2 orders please. With fries.