Marvel is just kiddy pop corn fluff they say...

I rank the "top tier" of MCU movies currently is in this order:
1) Avengers: Infinity War - they really put all the cards on the table and truly shocked us
2) TIE - Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: Winter Soldier - two really good, involving movies with high stakes and the introduction of Spider-man into the MCU.
3) Iron Man - this will always be in the top list as there would be no MCU without this movie's big success
4) Guardians of the Galaxy - just a whiz-bang, FUN joyride of a movie!
5) Avengers - this movie showed Hollywood that super hero team-up movies can succeed in a BIG way.
6) TIE AGAIN - Black Panther and Thor: Ragnarok - the first elevated a lesser known but awesome superhero and showed the world Wakanda; the second saved the Thor trilogy and had the best villain of that trilogy.

"Infinity war on the other hand just felt like a very entertaining movie, but nonetheless more of the same in a bigger dosage."

But it isn't, it very precisely, isn't. It doesn't adhere to the old as time classic three act structure, has no main character, focuses on its villain as the star, a GOOD villain for once, and ends the film with the heroes not only losing but the villain murdering half the universe including the most bankable stars, and tops it off with a tone that would make the Netflix Marvel characters feel right at home. Every building block of its foundation is far out of left field when it comes to the MCU.

Right? You'd have to be among the "lowest common denominator of cinema fans" to not be able to see the difference between Transformers and even the weakest entry in the MCU.

No. That's not it.

"The MCU movies are like Transformers? Fascinating. Curious to ask why you think this. No really, I'm actually academically fascinated what's fostering this delusion. The explanation as to why these movies are universally praised is because they're good, and it's really that simple."

I literally just told you why they're the same. In the very post that you replied to, I told you why they are the same. Because they're just as vapid, just as soulless, just as funny (that is to say not at all), just as flashy, just as empty, and just as juvenile. The same slapstick bro humor is found in both franchises. Both have big fights, and both have jokes inbetween said fights. And after fights, and before fights, and so on and so forth.

"No, they're not. All of these films have different themes, tones, character arcs, worlds, premises, visuals and action. Are there similar jokes and formulas? Sure. Comes with a shared universe franchise. But similar and identical do not equate. "

Yes. They are. You trying to prove how they're different by citing the plots doesn't mean that they don't follow the same formula, which was the entire fabric of my post. Way to have it go over your head junior. You win a gold star for being the most oblivious poster on the board. Congratulations. You think all of these films are different and don't follow the same formula because they have different characters. That's adorable.

"Sure. Winter Soldier, Civil War, and Black Panther are very clearly better than all of those. The Punisher, assuming you're not talking about the MCU-Netflix one, is a dumb eighties action film made twenty years too late. It's funny you brought up a movie that's clearly comparable to Michael Bay movies in quality. Your warped perception of reality is really starting to fascinate me."

From the sounds of it, anything can fascinate you so pardon me if I don't feel accomplished.

"Secondly, you're penultimate argument is not only confusing, but ill informed. Your inital blunt of the complaint is that these movies feel the same, and you end off by saying they should all be the same in a different way. And are you saying that a film needs to be serious to be a quality product. Quality is one tone fits all? Even if it were true that all Marvel films are tone light comedies that never take themselves s2eriously, which is patently false anyways, are you really unironically saying they're bad simply because they're A and I want B? Take your time, look at light-hearted classics, and come back and look at that statement hard."

No. I'm saying they're bad because they're bad. Not because I don't like them. I just also happen to not like them because they're bad. Transformers is bad because it's empty. The MCU is also bad because it's empty. And you can argue about Winter Soldier or Civil War sure, but the focus here is that the MCU as a whole, is downright garbage. Complete and utter dreck. Easy to please eye candy with kiddie fodder jokes. We aren't talking about the needles in the haystack. Watching the Avengers all chowing down on Shwarma, or the Asian monk dude in Doctor Strange jamming to Beyonce, is just as vapid and childish as Batman's nipple armor in Batman and Robin. I'm sorry you've deluded yourself into thinking these are great masterpieces of cinema. Truly. Even the Netflix shows on a shoestring budget are better than anything the MCU put out on an endless one.

Wow, Marvel Studios must have some incredible secret that enables them to make all these "tone light comedies that never take themselves seriously" that generate 15 BILLION DOLLARS over the course of 10 years!

I think it's called GOOD STORYTELLING. In this regard, the Transformer movies can't compare. Any studio can throw out a big budget for CGI. It takes competent writers who understand the characters and their histories to make comic book movies successful. All the CGI and actor casting in the world can't save a movie with a bad story.
It always gets me laughing, when a person who prefers the "dark and gritty" DCEU movies starts attacking the MCU, sayings that it's "kiddy stuff" and that people don't get the more "edgier" and "adult" tone of the DCEU. Why it's funny is that we do get it and the DCEU is crap because their storytelling sucks.

But please, by all means, let them mock the MCU. They will mock and the MCU will just keep putting out blockbuster comic book movies.

Note - for the record, I love DC comics but what Warner Bros has done to these golden age comic characters is an affront. At least Marvel cares about their final product!