There is only one Michael Bay film that has a positive Rotten Tomatoes score. It’s the same one that Roger Ebert awarded 3.5 out of 4 stars. It’s not Pearl Harbor and doesn’t involve drilling asteroids. It’s The Rock and it happens to be a great action movie. You may think The Rock doesn’t deserve to be underrated because it made a truckload of money, received mostly positive reviews and isn’t exactly obscure. That was before the Michael Bay problem. Look, I’m not really a Mi

Critics shrugged and gave it a polite 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences laughed and moved on. We’re the Millers made a very respectable $270 million at the box office in 2013, but nobody talks about this movie.

The third album from Counting Crows, This Desert Life , came out in 1999 to little fanfare. Critics were polite. Fans moved on quickly. The song that should have bolstered the success of this album was the first single, " Hanginaround ." It reached 28 on the Billboard charts, but “Hanginaround” was not as revered as Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby or Colorblind. I remember heading to Homer’s Music with a friend in 1994 to buy CDs for a little road trip. I bought Beck’s Mellow Gold and

Everything's Gonna Be Alright by Naughty by Nature in underrated

Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: Simple Minds are one of the most misremembered bands in the history of pop music. Most people have a version of them stored somewhere in their brain and that version is almost entirely built on one song they didn’t even write. A song recorded as a favor, released reluctantly, that went on to define them permanently in the eyes of everyone who wasn’t paying close enough attention. The song from The Breakfast Club is good, but this song