And it doesn't even have to be that you like the actor. If I see Brendan Frasier in a movie, I think "that dude seems to ONLY pick terrible movies." Nic Cage:

And it doesn't even have to be that you like the actor. If I see Brendan Frasier in a movie, I think "that dude seems to ONLY pick terrible movies." Nic Cage: "His appearance in a movie often has nothing to do with it's quality, although as time goes on he's gotten pretty bad at picking movies" Leonardo DiCaprio: "Never picks a bad movie. Regardless of opinion on his skill, he has never made a Ghost Rider or a Mummy Returns." I'd say Joseph Gordon-Levitt also seems to have great taste in scripts, as long as you realize how hard it is to turn down being "the GI Joe bad guy alongside Doctor Who." YMMV *Directors, sadly, seem to be much less consistent. Besides Nolan.