There are a lot of factors at play here (for humans in general). I myself, in my 50s, painfully clearly experience the contrast between the 'automatic recall' o

There are a lot of factors at play here (for humans in general). I myself, in my 50s, painfully clearly experience the contrast between the 'automatic recall' of any random stuff from the time of e.g. my early twenties, with not remembering anything particular happening a few days ago, unless I focus and luck has it something imprinted (wrong word). In spite of this, I believe I retain significant parts of my 2049 viewing, which I did appreciate, for what a "II Movie" might be. My main point if any being, my retaining or not retaining stuff from a particular movie has as much and more to do with my state at that given time, than with the movie in question. Another thing, to my dimmed sensibilities, is that I view Blade Runner as a more 'clear and basic' film (in a positive way) - "Hunter track down renegade robots". I cannot as clearly describe 2049, I assume because it was interwoven of many thinner threads, K or not be damned. I am not saying that one movie has threads and the other not, but they are 'cut' differently, differently textured.