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In honor of its 40th anniversary, The Karate Kid is getting a new 4K release that looks like a VHS box that might have sat in a video store 40 years ago. (I assume only the box looks like it’s 40 years old. If the print of the movie on that 4K disc looks like an old videotape, we’ve got a real problem.) Yes, The Karate Kid — the seminal ’80s sports movie featuring Ralph Macchio as the underdog karate fighter Daniel La Russo — is now 40 years old. The Karate Kid is now the Karate Late Middle-Aged Man. But that’s okay. Time makes fools of us all. And now you can revisit the original movie that l…