Ok, recently, I made an update on a website like this :
So, finally I got to watch this movie …
Basically, what I was trying to say is that "I got an opportunity to watch this movie". I was little skeptical about the usage of got here.
Is this statement correct:
I got to watch this movie
instead of
I got an opportunity to watch this movie
Best Answer
There is a difference. I got to watch the movie means that I watched the movie. If, on the other hand, I say I got the opportunity to watch the movie, then the reader knows I was in a position to watch the movie but does not know for sure that I did in fact watch it.