Extras are a bit of letdown, with only minor insight into the actual film itself. Most notably, there’s no commentary. The first disc contains “Focus Points,” a pop-up feature that can be played during the movie, or separately from the menu. These run a little over an hour total, and some areas are skimped. It’s hard to get a feel for the miniature work from a two-minute segment. Despite the footage and Nolan’s narration, many of these are far too brief.
Over on the second disc are two 46-minute features. The first, Batman Tech, focuses on the gadgets and their real world equivalents. The follow up is Batman Unmasked which delves into the psychological side of the characters. Six episodes of Gotham Tonight also run 46 minutes in total (what’s with the pattern?), and are decently produced news segments reporting on films various storylines. Some trailers and art are the final pieces of on-disc content.
There’s more to see via BD-Live, though it’s not easy to access at this time. Unlike other studios, Warner only requires an e-mail address to register on the player itself. The other part of the registration is done on your PC (thankfully). However, if you don’t complete it, you can only access limited features, such as multiple digital comics with awful voice acting. Since the servers weren’t responding (or gave error messages), the other features such as live chat couldn’t be tested. 
In pre-production, suit designers played a joke on Bale, handing him a suit which contained the infamous “bat nipples.” While Bale was quick to realize it was a joke, the suit was worn for some promotional photographs.
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