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Summer movies are spectacles that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Jan de Bont

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Jan de Bont
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 22
Cinematographer
Film Cinematographer
Film Director
Film Producer
Photographer
Screenwriter
Eindhoven
North Brabant
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Summer
Effects
Pay
Movies
Stop
Sometimes
Teased
Never
Spectacles
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