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But seriously, Joseph Cotten was a badass motherfucker. His performance in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" may be my favorite one ever. How we wasn't nominated for an Oscar is beyond me, but he did have formidable competition: Gary Cooper in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and Bogart in "Casablanca" - but they didn't win either! It was Paul Lukas, whoever the hell that was, for "Watch on the Rhine" - a movie that only made it to DVD by being part of a Bette Davis box set. Meanwhile, Police Academy 6 has had multiple pressings on DVD packaged on its own, not just bundled with other PA movies. So, clearly, there must be value in this movie for the market to have a higher demand for it than for "Watch on the Rhine".

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Well, if POLICE ACADEMY 6 had come right on the heels of a World War and been about heroic Resistance fighters versus evil Nazis or whatever else was evil at the time? Maybe it would have won some Oscars!

It's like the Polish comedian said when asked, "What is the secret of yo—?" "Timing."

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Well you finally slipped up in part 6 and referred to Michael Winslow by name

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