I have that German DVD, it’s video-matted at around 1.55:1. However, the aspect ratio is not constant because the hard matting on the film varies from shot to shot. Sometimes you can see a bigger bar at the bottom, sometimes a bigger bar at the top, the size varies, and those bars are part of the print because they have gate weave, and the constant video-generated bars throughout the entire film don’t.

I’d love to see that German open-matte TV airing. Some parts of the film are true open-matte with the whole frame exposed (the Stan Winston animatronic FX shots, in particular), some parts have animation FX in 1.33 composited over live action hard-matted at about 1.66-1.75 (I know this because I have seen the trailer projected at 1.33), other parts are hard-matted. I’d love to see how much the aspect ratio varied from scene to scene.