Why no widescreen version?!

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

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Sir_Jim_Monroe — 17 years ago(October 11, 2008 06:35 PM)

I can't beleive they put PAs 1-3, 6 & 7 in 1:85.1 widescreen, but not 4 & 5.
What a beeping ripoff!
VIVA LA REVOLUCIN!

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Cthulhu06 — 16 years ago(April 26, 2009 02:15 PM)

If you're talking about the DVDs I thought the same thing, seems a bit weird to have all the other movies in widescreen but not 4 and 5.

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j-taylor-goddard — 11 years ago(May 28, 2014 06:08 PM)

Warner have a nasty habit of putting their open matte ratio films in full frame 4:3.
The Vacation films, Moonwalker and The Shining all suffered the same DVD fate
With others like Beetlejuice they gave the option of both.
With 'open matte' though you are not missing any width, just gaining height. The picture is shot 'full frame' (4:3) but has excess headroom so the picture can be cropped to 16:9 widescreen.
Spielberg uses it a lot, and it was useful for films not being pan and scanned when put onto TV and video in the pre-widescreen days.
Only problem is you occasionally get a boom mic when shown in 4:3.

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dpcole7 — 11 years ago(November 23, 2014 04:18 PM)

I'd read the blu-ray release has this movie in widescreen

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j-taylor-goddard — 11 years ago(November 24, 2014 06:40 AM)

It is - but is basically a cropped version of the 4:3 which is how open matte works