I give the film three stars, and believe that it could have been four stars had Tarantino cut about 25 minutes. I also believe that it would be a war crime if Christoph Waltz does NOT get the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Colonel Landa, if only for the opening scene alone.
BTW: Marshal, Pitt's Aldo Laine character is supposed to be from eastern Tennesssee, so I don't see why he talks like somebody from Jacksonville.
Brad Pitt is, of course, from Springfield, MO, so he ought to have an Ozarkesque accent (Southern), a la Harry Truman, but as I remember, a lot of folks in Jacksonville, FL (aside from old timers) don’t have that much of an accent. Eastern TN natives should have a fairly distinctive Southern accent (especially if from the rural, isolated areas - such as Dolly Parton, and probably not terribly far removed from Loretta Lynn, from isolated Eastern KY). Of course, I’m a Middle TN/Nashville native, but I don’t sound like I’m from here at all, I sound Yankee to Southerners and Southern to Yankees. No one has ever correctly guessed my state of origin upon hearing me talk.
Anyway, I hope I get to see IB before long, most likely on DVD where I can control the volume, unlike in the theatre. :-P