Firstly - I thought he didn't swear? It really shocked me when he did.
Going to the cinema is a wicked experience when it goes well, but half the time its not even that comfortable - people talk, people eating, slurping etc, I used to work at cinema and have had to humour loads of unhappy people because a 'chav' has focused his attention and energy on throwing popcorn rather than watching the film. Also DVDs are so cheap now its difficult to pay £6 + to see a film when most dvds on play are around £6 and you can watch em again and again and they look nice all stacked together. On the subject of Lynch - ( and this is relevant ) I bought Inland Empire on DVD from play.com about £10 posted. I watched it at a friends house through a projector on a comfy sofa. The cinema experience was pretty much perfect - infact it was probably one of my best cinematic experiences ( mainly due to the projector, I dont think IE would have the same impact on a widescreen TV ) - but consider the cost, excluding the projector, the evening would be £15 max between 3. I dont think you could get 3 people into a cinema ( except on orange wednesdays ) for that, let alone have drinks and nibbles. Plus, with the home cinema you can guarantee a Pussy Cat Dolls ringtone isn't going to interrupt you half a dozen times...
I sympathise with Cinemas, because walking in and out of an engrossing film is fantastic, but with increasing anti-social tendencies in a portion of the customers and decreasing DVD prices online... I think its a losing battle.
However, I recently got an Ipod, i dont think id get much out of watching a film on it, I use it to watch documentaries but i think it would lose whatever a gorgeous film has that makes it so great. How can anyone watch 'the deer hunter' whilst taking head-phones out and looking elsewhere and mumbling "station please"...... on a 2inch screen, purrrhleese...
Someone told me Arts funding has been cut by around a third - across the board - because of the Olympics *sigh*