Did you know where the characters were going when they got lost in an alien beehive and started smoking weed in their spacesuits to calm their nerves?
But in all realness there were like two locations in the movie so it wasn't hard to be situated geographically. The bigger issue was being lost in what the hell was going on and why anything was happening. Are we supposed to be afraid of the alien snakes, or the person zombie, or the squid, or the engineer, or David, or random old man guy pierce...it had no focus and the lack of any reasonable character motivations and terrible tension building just made it feel like sludge.
I don't even think the cinematography was that good either. It was slickly polished in Ridley's current very commerical looking way, and generally aesthetically pleasing, but it didn't help tell the story particularly well, and I certainly wasn't wowed enough by it to forget about the rest of the movie.
Haha, I mean, yeah, I did, since Idris Elba's character had them up on a map and all.
In terms of the geography, though, there are a decent amount of locales. There are the various parts of the Engineer installation, and then the Prometheus itself, which was actually made as one set (though with many layers stacked on top of each other) on the 007 sound stage. It's insane to me that they actually built all of that shit, and I think the good will from that heightens the experience for me.
And I understand the complaint about the lack of an identifiable antagonist. There are a lot of "creepy moments" with various characters that sometimes don't pan out to anything satisfying, so it's a totally valid slight.
What saves the film, for me, is that there's enough shown and not explicitly told that I was still interested in where the mythology was going, and the suspense and curiosity of that ended up being very gratifying.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on the visuals, though. Prometheus doesn't have the industrial, dirty vibe of the original Alien, but it wouldn't really make sense if it did. This is a corporate science mission, not space trucking.
