"Damn!!! I'm late for school!"
Unanswerable question:
What kind of temporal experiment could Doc possibly be conducting that would result in the thirty-five clocks in his house to be 25min slow?
Unanswerable question:
What kind of cool kid in 1985 did not wear a watch?
it made perfect sense to me bc I have dyscalculia--dyslexia with numbers. I have problems reading analog clocks/watches. Marty might have that too. And back then digital clocks were less common than they are today. My parents refused to get me a digital watch until high school in the 1990's bc they thought people would look at me differently.
shareIn 1985 Casio watches were ubiquitus.
In my elementary class every cool kid had it.
And BTW, Marty has one: its alarm goes off later in the movie.
So he really has no reason to not know the correct time at Doc's.
just bc you and your school had it doesn't mean everybody did.
the casio marty has is in the scene where he is in the 50's--vs the scene which opens the movie. that scene comes after marty cannot figure time out with all the clocks.
Nah, first Marty has his watch on throughout the film, including the first scene. The problem is that Marty's watch doesn't work (a joke).
In the first scene, we can conclude Marty was relying on the time displayed on the clocks in Doc's garage. A follow-up question would then need to be addressed, though:
If Marty knows he has to get to school on time, but likes to stop by Doc's garage beforehand, he'll need to leave home earlier. If Marty knows he's left home at a certain time, but arrives at Doc's garage at a relatively shorter period of time needed, why didn't Marty question that?
We're ALL overthinking this, but that's what this site's for so ...
How about this: Marty arrives, sees all the clocks, notes the time and thinks he's running 25 minutes early so he wastes time setting up the gigantic amp
that's why he didn't question the time ... he (mistakenly) noted it as a "bonus" and exploited it to rock out
Marty is literally looking at his watch on the movie poster.
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