No really. I actually love James Cameron, I love every single movie he's ever made (except Avatar 2, which I will have to grapple with someday). When I was like 6 there was an Aliens exhibit at the Baltimore Science Center with large scale models of the power loader and the Queen alien, and the fight at the end looped on a 13" tube tv, and my parents had to take turns standing with me because I wouldn't leave, I had to keep watching it over and over again. But I genuinely love the first Avatar - I can still remember seeing it in theatres, and how it felt like... well, like I was 6 again.
But there's also something about the story and message of that movie that I love. Make fun of it for having a cliched plot, criticize it for the 'white savior' issues - but at the end of the day, it has a great message. And there's a scene/image from that movie that's burned in my brain - it's during a montage in the middle of the movie, there's a line about how the Navi understand that life is finite, and an overhead shot of a dead body in a grave. Because yeah, we have to die eventually. Have to go back into the earth and get eaten by worms.
I like the idea that you need to just accept this, and try spread some good while you're here."