Since I saw that Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger were teaming up again in the new film, The Informers, I decided to check out their first onscreen coupling in Nine 1/2 Weeks.

I always knew that the film was an 80s icon of super-sexy situations and it didn’t disappoint in that aspect. Also, it served as a jarring reminder of just how little modern day Mickey Rourke resembles the actor from his prime.

But—and I don’t know if this is because of my age or personality—although I did find it very sexually intriguing, imagining having a boyfriend who insisted that every romantic tryst be a complicated sex act seemed…well, exhausting.

Granted, it would be exciting at first, but who has that kind of time?  When the climactic scene finally appeared in which Kim’s character puts her foot down after her boyfriend has invited another woman into their bed, I found myself sighing with relief. For Christ’s sake, he had her hike across town to a hotel room for this particular lovemaking session, I thought to myself as I shook my head in disbelief.

By the time the scene with the proposed ménage à trois arrived, I half-expected him to have reached the point where he would request his lady be shot out of a cannon through hoops of fire during sex so that he could properly get aroused. “Honey, why is there a tiger in our bed?” was what I thought the last line in the movie might end up being.

Of course, I can see why the flick is a classic and the chemistry between Rourke and Basinger is nothing short of electric. But make sure to allot plenty of time for a cat nap after viewing.