(It also made more sense when I discovered that the subtitles track also subtitles the aliens. Makes it a whole different movie.)

Ooh, yeaaah, it does. We watched it on TV, and being a non-English country everything is subtitled anyway. I can't imagine trying to watch it without the subtitles, you'd miss even more!

We missed the very beginning though, so the bit about the leaders dying off was probably in there somewhere.