Coyotes (spoilers maybe, not really)

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 2004)

I was thinking, after leaving the movie, about the coyote scene. I was thinking of it in terms of montage. Pop films in the 80's completely slaughtered and ruined the ideal of musical montage, or more accurately, the use of popular or rock music (lyrics included) over scenes.
The coyote scene, with Chris Cornell and Audioslave singing and playing over the final trip to the final stop, actually worked for me. After being brow-beaten by Huey Lewis and the News in the Back to the Future films, all the training montages in the Rocky films, and the absolute crap-rock that is overlayed in modern action films, the montage has become grossly cliché and almost laughable. The musical uses that worked for me were among few others, in Magnolia, Collateral, Full Metal Jacket (beginning of the second half "These boots were made for walking") and a few others.
Anyone else think of instances where rock or pop or any lyrical music has been used recently or in the past when it was not completely gay? I think it's something that can be used to great emotional effect, only if the director has the skill to pull it off.