Ever gotten to see something before everyone else?

I was just reading that about 36 minutes of the latest Harry Potter movie got out to BitTorrent distribution until Warner Bros managed to shut them down. This article said folks are worried that people will be turned off by those minutes and not go see the movie.

Really? The most successful movie franchise in history? As if that weren’t enough, my secret source tells me that the movie is fantastic. Very scary, but fantastic. A little slow in the beginning, but fantastic.

Ok, it was my daughter. She got to see the movie with a local movie critic. She has done this a number of times because her best friend is the movie critic’s daughter. I guess she knows how to choose her friends wisely.

Anyway, it’s good for her, not so good for the rest of us, since she often doesn’t want to see the movie again when we’re trying to find a movie we all want to see. She allowed as how she would see this one again.

Well, that’s not really about me, but close enough I could touch the person it’s about. Have you ever gotten to see something before anyone else? What was it? How did it feel?