Impressive sweded Pacific Rim trailer

If you’re not familiar with the term, it means the process of taking a well-known movie and recreating it with singularly unimpressive special effects—or in other words, with only the special effects available to the talents and budgets of any pre-schooler. Thus all the cardboard, Scotch tape, poster board and packing peanuts.

The term comes from the movie Be Kind Rewind, where the employees of a video rental store recreate accidentally erased tapes and explain their bizarre nature as having be “sweded”—imported from Sweden.

And to conclude this round of meta-ness, a trailer from the movie Be Kind Rewind.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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